TL;DR: Looks like the "victimless crime" has a few victims after all.
No “tips” for the prostitutes?
Well since women are hooking up without pay the prostitutes have that to compete with also.
Things are HARD all over.
You know things are tough when the price of a Hooker drops from $50 to $20. They need to unionize or something.
So, how much is air fare, and when do we leave? ;-)
Maybe the pros should just procure boyfriends and give it away to them for free, like the rest of womandom.
Unfortunately not defined.
Since I know you're all dying to see what Ilonka looks like:
She's the one on the left, as you might imagine.
What a great time for a congressional fact finding trip. Hillary should go too so she can strengthen her financial and economic acumen
Well it’s not really a victimless activity... it hurts the people involved and they hurt other people etc.
I see the problem right there. Sounds like the GOP-e.
Of course, there is something very German about the government registering prostitutes.
"Your papers please..."
It’s tough to clean up a business like prostitution. The nature of the business defies it being so.
Of course not. To address anything from a moral point of view, you would first have to HAVE a moral point of view--and modern Europe lost that a long time back.
€50? That’s serious inflation from just a decade ago. Something is askew here.
With the open European borders, the professional prostitute class in the Netherlands came under attack by mostly eastern European sex-trafficked women, who worked as illegal prostitutes. At the time the going rate was around €20 for licensed, prostitute-union prostitutes.
€50 (for 10 minutes) was more like the price for ‘concierge’ prostitutes, also not legal, and not in the red light district.
The bottom line is that unlike Germany, where prostitution is very carefully regulated, the Netherlands are so laid back that problems could develop. Left to just the Dutch, neither the prostitution or drugs was a problem; but waves of immigrants quickly took to abusing the system.
Economy Hard on Prostitutes </NY Post headline>
Well, yes, you are, Mr. Mayor, and it isn't a bad thing, but you're going to have to think it through. Preventing these women from being abused is certainly a moral point of view, and it's a good one. The difficulty is that you're trying to have it both ways: switching on morality when it is in the interest of preventing the sorts of abuse you don't like and switching it back off when it comes to the overall question of just how abusive prostitution is in itself. That is a fair working description of your government's approach and why it is likely to fail.