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PJust to be clear, I don’t think there’s any law that explicitly says that prostitution is legal. The only reason it is considered legal, including by the Supreme Court, is because there’s no law banning it. Solicitation and brothels are actually made illegal by law. So that might be part of the problem.PI wouldn’t call most of the Scandinavian or western European countries, New Zealand, Australia, or Canada third world countries. Of course, exact laws vary but the goal behind them all is the same. The issue is obviously not the policy but the politics and the enforcement. Most of those countries have extremely strict laws, human rights protections, and health and safety laws that must be followed but the public solicitation thing is still illegal, others are more regulated. Just to be clear, in most cases public solicitation means exactly that, soliciting in public on a public street or at a public place.PIf you are a prostitute then you can sell your services but you can’t actively advertise them or go out on the street looking for clients, telling them what you do. Discretion is the key. And if you are a client, you are technically not allowed to go on the street and ask people if they offer any sort of services. It’s a whole lot of grey area, contradictions and intensionally confusing laws.
The point of all this is to essentially protect the workers from being charged with a crime and to prevent their exploitation but at the same time discouraging the acts themselves because they are considered “immoral” by the governments. How successful these are is a different matter altogether. That said India isn’t the only country with this kind of laws.
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