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I really want to read more about this. The article doesn't mention how this new law intends to target pimps and sex-buyers without punishing sex-sellers. We see time and again laws "intended" to target the worst perpetrators of a crime regularly being used to instead target the victims of it. How is this law phrased to protect against that possibility?
From my understanding, legalization makes it possible for the government to regularize. Since everyone attempts to hide their activities when it's a crime, it's more difficult for the police to locate victims of sex trafficking.
This isn't legalization.
There is no government regulation of sex work being done here, this is partial decriminalization, which in the context of sex work means eliminating the crime.
So far, the research suggests that decriminalization is the best model for sex workers and for communities. New Zealand's model is better than what you see in Amsterdam. Making it legal and regulated just drives sex work “into more covert forms where working routines are negatively impacted” (Vanwesenbeeck, 2017, p. 1634). It's why when France implemented a Nordic Model, they found that “not only had it failed to reduce demand for sex work, it also failed to impact the incidence of trafficking into prostitution, and it put sex workers at greater risk by increasing the stigma against them” (Östergren, Dodillet, 2011).