Italian city makes it illegal to look like a prostitute in public to protect 'urban decorum'

It became legal in New Zealand and there consequences for society at large were basically nil. People are able to take work that uses a few other body parts should that be something they want to do. The government gets more tax, the sex workers get more rights, a whole lot of people avoid getting sexual diseases. The main up side was it became a zoned activity carried out in specific work places, not cauisng problems out in the street.

 

These days there are high class prostitutes that roam the bars of hotels so how do you stop them? The problem is that most of these people aren't Italians and they don't know how else to stop them, and they aren't locals. The police have to be harsher in stopping them, but sadly the police are corrupt too.

 

That's pretty typical of how sex workers are already viewed.
Also anyone who has taken a high school economics class would know the hookers are the supply side while the Johns are the demand side.
But I supposed your right, it might upset a few prudes. Also many of the Italian politicians who are found of buying sex are the type to like to publicly demonize it to help keep up appearances.

 

hehe. But there are quite a few countries in Europe where it is legal so it wouldn't be such a big and revolutionary step to do it in Italy too. As far as I know, it's working really well in the countries that have legalized it.

 

I find this ridiculous, women should be able to look how they want because is their appearance, doesn't matter how socially unacceptable it is... They are messing with self expression and that's not healthy, I think that there's a lot of people out there who doesn't "look like" prostitutes and they are, this is ridiculous.

 

Well, they have implemented the same law in France about ten years ago and scrapped it. Why? Prostitutes just wore typical casual clothing instead. So in a way, they do know that this law is not all that it seems to be. There's a way to work around with it. Prostitutes can wear jeans and still get clients. You never know if your classmate is actually a prostitute, and her work pays for her schooling. So in that sense, providing a certain dress code for women isn't the solution. If they want to clean up the system, they have got to deal with the issue itself.

I do think legalising prostitution is the proper way to go. This way, there would be less transmission of diseases since the workers would need health permits. Aside from that, the government can actually tax these workers. And anyone who doesn't have a work permit, cannot work as a prostitute. Simple as that.

I do understand though that even with legalising prostitution there is bound to be some people who would break the laws. And with those people, the only solution is to provide them with means of working legally.

 

Institutionalized sexism is working right here. As a previous commenter wrote this is not the way to deal with the problem of prostitution. This is a dumb law-- you can prostitute yourself wearing anything! WTH is urban decorum anyway? Don't we live in a highly urbanized and developed country? Why should anyone be discriminated by the clothes they wear? Jeez.

 

I know there would be people saying liberal stuff like who will tell me how am I going to dress myself and similar things to that but have in mind that somebody is already doing this because you cannot enter every place half naked. I say, good for them. I am sick and tired of so called new trendy clothes. Call a primitive redneck if you want to (I am not), but this is too much sometimes. I really understand the need to express yourself but people take it for granted sometimes. It is just wrong. I have seen girls going around half naked with a look of junkie bum hookers.

 

The thing is though, in every town or city people know where the prostitution takes place and where these girls hang out, so is changing the way they dress really going to make a difference?

No matter how they look, people know that if they're stood in that part of town exactly what they're there for. Telling then what to wear isn't going to make too much difference