Brothels

[smurfchops]

Are brothels, or girls standing on the corner, legal?

[daffy654]

No,soliciting for sex is illegal in the UK.

[smurfchops]

Then why do we see it on so many street corners, day as well as night, and how do they get away with it ??

[ojread2]

because stadning on a street corners isn't illegal.

[daffy654]

They get away with it because the police are supposedly busy chasing hardened criminals. The main problem with prostitution is that while there is a demand for it then there will always be people willing to supply it. If it were legalised and regulated it would be much easier to police and safer for all involved in the "industry".
I used to live in an area of Leicester renowned for the street corner prostitutes and I hated it,men would pull up next to me when I was walking to the shop in daylight with my kids and ask if I wanted "business",it was disgusting! I moved away from the area as soon as I was financially able to.

[smurfchops]

And they are so young !

[ojread2]

they are young, some of them very young.

Thankfully, I don't live near enough to our towns red light area to be asked if I want any bsuiness - that must be awful!

[laurence2]

How old are you smurfchops?

[DONNA1458]

A man can only get arrested if he is seen more than once looking for business with these girls/women, if the girls/women get caught twice in a year they then get done for prostitution. I think the girls on the street are all on drugs why else would they not go into a brothel if not?

[beryllium]

Prostitution is legal, but many of the areas surrounding exchanging sex for money or other goods are criminal offences.

[jake-the-peg]

There's a certain amount of blind eye turning that goes on.

I don't have a great sense of direction but there seem to be lots of adverts offering to escort me in my own home!

Maybe I could just buy a GPS

[Ethel]

Brothels are legal providing only one woman is working from the premises.

Women are prosecuted for soliciiting - and have to find more punters to pay the fine. Vicious circle.

This is something that will never be stopped.

[laurence2]

I think a ''lone' woman is allowed to sell sex from a flat or another premises legally, but more than one constitutes breaking the law.

I'm sure someone will put me right if i'm wrong. lol

























Awaits put down. lol

[laurence2]

You beat me to it ethel. lol

[beryllium]

Have a read if you wish....

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/?view=Search+resu lts&simpleOrAdvanced=simple&contentType=All&se archHostsAll=All&externalSearchMaxResults=150& rnum=25970992&excludeSitePath=www.homeoffice.g ov.uk%7C%2Fhons%2F%7C%2Fdocuments%2Fcons-2006- psa-targets%24scienceandresearch.homeoffice.go v.uk%7C%2Fhosdb2%2F%24&searchTerm=paying+the+p rice

[bill preston]

so if a person is in a flat on thier own can they advertise the fact that will exchange sexual acts for money?

i always thought prostitution in the uk was illegal??

[laurence2]

Currently only ''LONE'' prostitutes can offer sex from flats or other premises wothout ''BREAKING THE LAW''

So make your own conclusions from that

[Ethel]

Prostitution in itself is NOT illegal in the UK.

Soliciting, living off immoral earnings and a whole rook of other offences may apply however.

http://www.sw5.info/law.htm

[beryllium]

I love the fact the Government calls them Common Prostitutes lol.....

This is Sex Workers and The Law from Release and they have a PDF with all the laws aswell....

http://www.release.org.uk/store/showItem.php?c ategory=publications&id=3

Lincolns Inn anyone???

[Octavius]

A summary of Ethels link:

As said above, prostitution - exchanging participation in sexual activities for money or other goods - has always been legal in the UK. The introduction of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 made some changes.

The laws on working on the street have become 'gender neutral'. Anyone, male or female, on the street (or on a balcony or in a window) can be found guilty of soliciting for the purpose of prostitution.

Anyone kerb-crawling (approaching other people from or near a vehicle they've just got out of for the purpose of prostitution) is particularly at risk, not least as their vehicle can now be seized.

Working alone indoors, or for an agency or in a brothel remains legal, provided the worker is at least 18. Buying sex from them is also legal.

'Pimping', running an agency or brothel is illegal. But controlling another adult's prostitution is now only illegal if you gain from it (or know that someone else does). Looked at another way, gaining from someone else's prostitution is now legal: it's the control for gain that's illegal.

[Hellyon]

I used to work for a city council and they cleared up the red light district by hiring a 'Prostitution' solicitor who removed them from their houses under a clause in the original deeds to the properties stating the occupier of the house could not 'make bricks, have a fairground, mine (as in coal mine) or run a brothel' I kid you not!