New Orleans City Council Sidney Story drafted an ordinance in 1897 to restrict prostitution to a small area of the city, “The District,” where all New Orleans prostitutes must live and work. The district, nicknamed Storyville, has become the most well-known area for prostitution in the country. At its peak, Storyville had about 1,500 prostitutes and 200 brothels. Some have argued that prostitution has an extremely high level of violence; They claim that many prostitutes were victims of violence, rape, and coercion before entering prostitution, including as children,[41][42] and that many young women and girls, at least in England, Norway, Australia, and Canada, engage in direct prostitution as a result of state care. [43] The recommendation has been condemned by groups whose goal is to end prostitution, which they see as a source of sexual inequality and harmful to women. Amnesty International has received support from public health advocates and activists who see decriminalisation as the best way to reduce the harms associated with the sex industry, including underage prostitution, human trafficking and violence. The debate will certainly be repeated, and it will almost certainly be full of accusations of treason. If prostitution is legally accepted as normal work, society must also reflect this new acceptance. According to Merel, it`s all well and good to regulate working conditions within the industry, but if you pay taxes and work legally, there should also be the resources and space to do your job. In recent years, the government has reduced the number of windows available through purchase and conversion, resulting in a shortage of jobs for many prostitutes.

The idea behind this policy was to reduce demand by reducing the available supply of the product. But since the need for carnal pleasure has always been and always will be in great demand, this only has the effect of reducing legal employment. In addition, there should be a strong union that defends workers. Currently, there is Vakbond Vakwerk, but this organization is very small and has no meaningful voice. The lack of adequate care for prostitutes has made the legal practice of sex work relatively unattractive. The most important improvement Merel would like to see is the introduction of a policy that allows for greater governmental and non-governmental cooperation with prostitutes: when Bella Robinson learned that indoor prostitution was being decriminalized in Rhode Island, she packed her stuff and moved from New Jersey. Nevada law prohibits brothels from advertising in jurisdictions where local ordinances or state laws prohibit prostitution. In jurisdictions where brothels are permitted, it is illegal for them to advertise “in any public theatre, on the public streets of a city or town, or on any public street”. The ideal was that, unlike the ordinary prostitute accessible to all, universal victim at the bottom of the hierarchy of prostitution, the “honest courtesan” should be a demanding lover. who honestly judged his admirers and accepted only the best. Although informal, red-light districts can be found in some parts of the country.

Since prostitution is illegal, there are no official brothels, but massage parlors offering prostitution can be found with street prostitution. Typically, these areas also have other adult-oriented businesses, often due to zoning, such as strip clubs, sex shops, adult cinemas, adult video arcades, peep shows, sex shows, and sex clubs. In countries where prostitution is regulated, prostitutes may be registered, they may be hired by brothels, they may form trade unions, they may fall under labour protection laws, their income may be taxable, they may be required to undergo regular health checks, etc. However, the degree of regulation varies greatly depending on the case law. In 1971, Nevada became the only state in the United States to legalize prostitution and allow strictly licensed and regulated brothels in the state`s sparsely populated counties. However, brothels remain illegal in the major cities of Las Vegas, Reno and their suburbs. The legal licensing of a limited number of brothels has created a two-tier system that benefits brothel owners at the expense of sex workers. The stigmatization of prostitution hinders the possibility of cooperation between prostitutes, politicians and government agencies to improve the sex industry. Street prostitution is illegal throughout the United States.