Die geltenden Gesetze Japans machen Prostitution für die Prostituierten zu einem Verbrechen, nicht jedoch für die Kunden. Prostituierte protestieren gegen Versuche, es für beide Parteien illegal zu machen: „Die Bestrafung wird uns nur die schlimmsten Kunden bescheren.“
https://www.ben54.jp/news/3308
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Ngl this law is stupid, it’s like drug dealer is crime but the one who buy is not. I shouldn’t compare like that but it is.
I like how the article points that the anti-prostitution laws and Nordic Model stuff is mostly a byproduct of Christian morality. So wouldn’t the the conservative/natonalist thing here be to not crack down on it?
To quote the great George Carlin, „Why should prostitution be illegal? Selling is legal, fucking is legal, so why isn’t selling fucking legal?“
Jokes aside, Japan does have a pretty large prostitution industry, which is not necessarily an issue, but a lot of those workers are minors who left abusive families, which is a major issue. Places like Amsterdam in the Netherlands legalized prostitution, but it is a regulated industry. Those who become self-employed prostitutes need to be over age 21 and register with the Chamber of Commerce, and customers usually need to sign contracts for fees and services rendered (there are protections for both customers and providers). This would pretty much resolve a number of issues surrounding prostitution in Japan and probably contribute a healthy dose of taxable revenue to the government.
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What’s more important than the law, is how it’s being enforced.
This is wrong, as usual for Reddit. Prostitution is technically illegal in Japan, but there is no specific penalty for the act itself. If it is just a private arrangement, neither the client nor the woman gets punished. Soliciting on the street is illegal, but otherwise the woman is not punished for selling sex. Enforcement mostly goes after businesses and people who arrange or profit from it, not the women themselves.