Sex trade legitimized
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October 15, 2010, Friday
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TAIWAN government plans to allow sex workers to set up small businesses in the latest change to laws that had once forced the huge industry to go underground.
Authorities said they would consider brothels of three to five staff away from areas frequented by children.
They ruled out earlier proposals to set up red-light districts or allow larger businesses due to concerns among members of the committee set up to study the issue that such measures could eventually turn the sex trade into a regular industry.
Prostitution was legal in Taipei up until 1997 when the city authorities made it a criminal offence to be a prostitute, though not to use one.
The government began debating new laws two years ago after pressure from prostitute groups over the unfairness of the law. In 2009 it stopped punishing sex workers.
Bars and nightclubs in older parts of Taipei still teem with sex workers.
Authorities said they would consider brothels of three to five staff away from areas frequented by children.
They ruled out earlier proposals to set up red-light districts or allow larger businesses due to concerns among members of the committee set up to study the issue that such measures could eventually turn the sex trade into a regular industry.
Prostitution was legal in Taipei up until 1997 when the city authorities made it a criminal offence to be a prostitute, though not to use one.
The government began debating new laws two years ago after pressure from prostitute groups over the unfairness of the law. In 2009 it stopped punishing sex workers.
Bars and nightclubs in older parts of Taipei still teem with sex workers.
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