Amsterdam said it would close nearly one-third of the 350 windows that prostitutes use in the city's notorious Red Light District, invoking a 2003 law that allows it to revoke the licenses of brothels when it suspects that they are being used for money laundering or other illegal financial activities.
Holroyd writes: Ever since the licensing of Continental brothels in the 1870s and the subsequent discovery that British girls were being exported to Brussels and Vienna... 'The Great Social Evil,' as the Victorians called prostitution, had begun to exceed slum-landlordism as the most controversial topic for the press.
A spokeswoman for the provincial governorate of Istanbul, which is in charge of licensing brothels in Istanbul, said by telephone that she was not aware of any policy to close down brothels or otherwise impede legal prostitution.
Decriminalisation would not solve all the industry's problems the details of licensing brothels, in particular, are tricky, when the line between commercial sex and other kinds is so fuzzy but it would help.
The Ecuador study concluded that rigorous policing of street prostitution might limit the spread of STIs by directing sex workers into the safer environs of licensed brothels.
Al Goodman (NYT) GREECE: PROSTITUTES PROTEST Some 200 prostitutes demonstrated in Athens, demanding that the Socialist government repeal a law barring renewal of their licenses that was intended to clear the city of brothels ahead of the 2004 Olympics.
Starbucks has become a chain of brothels.
A number of brothels in Cartagena are in these zones.
A parliamentary inquiry into the regulation of brothels in NSW is under way, and the chief executive of the sex workers' union Scarlet Alliance, Janelle Fawkes, says she believes hearings so far have exposed a push towards a licensing model like those in Queensland and Victoria.
As we drove around Baghdad, Layla and Mohammad pointed out dozens of brothels.
