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Lifting the Ban on Brothels: Prostitution in 2000-2001

Document number
1207
Date
2004
Title
Lifting the Ban on Brothels: Prostitution in 2000-2001
Author/publisher
A.L. Daalder, WODC
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Prostitution; Sex work; Unionisation of sex workers; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism,
Summary
On October 1, 2000 the general ban on brothels in the Netherlands was lifted. The core of the legislation is that those forms of prostitution in which adult prostitutes are voluntarily engaged are no longer illegal. This report is the English translation of the first comprehensive, evaluative report to be published since the new legislation came into force and is based on data obtained from a number of sub-studies commissioned by the WODC.
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