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Prostitution in England & Wales - Favorable Legal Situation
Legislation in England and Wales dictates that
sex services must be engaged in only in private
and public street solicitation is not allowed. They only allow
individual providers not brothels but workers can freely
advertise unless as long as the advertising is not
overly graphic.
Under the Street Offences
Act 1959, it is an offence for a common prostitute to loiter or solicit
in a street or public place for the purposes of prostitution. In order
to count as a 'common prostitute' and be charged with loitering or
soliciting, you must have received at least two 'street cautions' in
the last year. A street caution is given verbally on the street, and on
the evidence of two or more police officers, and is kept on police
records.
Likewise the Kerb crawling law prohibits
men from soliciting a women for prostitution on the street or in a
public place. The only penalty is a fine. The purpose seems to make
sense to avoid harassment of women on the street who are not
prostitutes.
It is legal to provide sexual services
in a house or flat as long as there is only one person selling sex. If
there are more than that, the premises classify as a brothel and you
may be at risk from SOA section 33.
It is not
illegal to advertise sexual services, although if the ads are extremely
graphic and are likely to 'deprave or corrupt ' persons likely to see
them, they may fall foul of the Obscene Publications Act 1959.
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