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Bill: Re-legalise Prostitution
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social-Liberal Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2094
Description[?]:
| Prostitution will once again be legal in Beluzia. However, prostitutes must be at least 18, and clients must be at least 16. Prostitutes will be considered bona fide entrepreneurs; they shall pay taxes and are otherwise treated like any other self-employed tradesperson. Prostitution activities shall be restricted to liscenced brothels, to provide for easier regulation. Condoms will be used for all sexual contact. Local governments may choose to restrict prostitution in certain areas as with other industrial activities. Advertising the services is likewise tolerated, but restrictions may apply in the interest of public order. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is illegal.
Current: Prostitution is illegal.
Proposed: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:17:47, August 10, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Re-legalise Prostitution |
| Message | This bill has been previously discussed in this house, and was only revoked in the period of temporary chaos following the collapse of the previous government. We feel the old law deserves to be restored. |
| Date | 11:19:12, August 11, 2005 CET | From | LiberalDemocraticFreedomTaxAndSpendParty | To | Debating the Re-legalise Prostitution |
| Message | 16? isn't that a little young? |
| Date | 23:02:09, August 11, 2005 CET | From | Catholic Workers Movement | To | Debating the Re-legalise Prostitution |
| Message | In a country with some of the world's highest unemployment rates, there are tremendous economic rpssures for young, vulnerable women to be forced into a life of prostiution. We would not condemn those women for this act of desperate survival. What we would condemn is a society so blind to the challenge of poverty that it will allow prostitution to flourish. This is not a civil right issue, it is an issue of economic poverty. |
| Date | 01:11:51, August 12, 2005 CET | From | LiberalDemocraticFreedomTaxAndSpendParty | To | Debating the Re-legalise Prostitution |
| Message | 16? isn't that a little young? |
| Date | 01:51:46, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Re-legalise Prostitution |
| Message | Since pimps are illegal in Beluzia who is going to force these women (or men) into becoming prostitutes? Economic pressures perhaps, however it is highly unlikely and no more likely to happen than in any other profession. Besides many decide upon this profession for themselves. @TSP why is 16 a little young? |
| Date | 01:34:17, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Re-legalise Prostitution |
| Message | I thank the Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party for restating an excellent argument for this bill. We would support any initiative to support the lives of legal prostitutes, provided they pay taxes like the rest of us. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 98 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 86 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 116 |
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