If they do continue to sell sex then if a client gets to be violent they have the choice to call the police and face no fine for doing so. The majority of violence behind anything is it being illegal. Like with drugs, the victims of crimes dealing with prostitution won’t go to the police, afraid of being fined themselves. For example, if a sex worker has a client that physically abuses her and beats her, she cannot go to the police for fear that the person fined or arrested would be her. She would the guilty party. That gives all the power to the man. This new legislation could be a protection for the women and girls who choose to do this out of
If they do continue to sell sex then if a client gets to be violent they have the choice to call the police and face no fine for doing so. The majority of violence behind anything is it being illegal. Like with drugs, the victims of crimes dealing with prostitution won’t go to the police, afraid of being fined themselves. For example, if a sex worker has a client that physically abuses her and beats her, she cannot go to the police for fear that the person fined or arrested would be her. She would the guilty party. That gives all the power to the man. This new legislation could be a protection for the women and girls who choose to do this out of