Boost in staff for brothels

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Boost in stmpf for brothels
Rosemary Odgers and Emma Chalmers
08nov05

QUEENSLAND brothels will be able to have an extra three prostitutes working at any one time, under reforms to the legal sex industry.

Premier Peter Beattie said yesterday that the Government would adopt a Crime and Misconduct Commission recommendation to ease restrictions on the number of sex workers allowed to be in a brothel at the same time Reviewom five to eight.
But Mr Beattie stressed the Government was not backing down on its tough stance on prostitution.

"This change will not increase the number of rooms and will not increase the number of customers, it will simply allow the brothel workers to have a break between clients," he said.

"The CMC found that on busy nights, sex workers will often work continuously through their shift and obviously it's a workplace health and smpety issue."

Other reforms will make it illegal to ask a brothel worker to have sex, including oral sex, without a condom.

But the Government rejected a CMC recommendation to relax restrictions on brothels in residential areas.

Queensland Adult Business Association spokesman Nick Inskip, who owns the brothel Purely Blue, said the sex industry was split over the plan to allow brothels to have an extra three workers because it could result in more competition among prostitutes.

A review commissioned by the Prostitution Licensing Authority last year found street-based sex workers were often deterred Reviewom the five-room boutique brothels because they did not want to share their takings or had drug or health problems preventing them being licensed.

A review by the Crime and Misconduct Commission recommended 29 changes to the prostitution laws and it is reviewing whether escort services or house calls should be legalised.

Mr Beattie and Police Minister Judy Spence said yesterday they would "take some convincing" to legalise escorts but the Government had an "open mind".

Ms Spence said the CMC had found street prostitution was dropping and police had told her there were probably fewer than five regular street prostitutes working in the city and Fortitude Valley.

But Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said the Government's own figures showed the illegal industry was still a problem and 799 public soliciting offences were reviewed last year.

http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,17175098,00.html

 

[Shelly]

Just make sure...

...they're not teachers moonlighting. Because Beattie sez the community won't stand for that.

Though they're happy to have teachers who visit brothels. Because that's different.

 

[serena doom]

Brothels

Thanks to Raven for the up-date.

Having worked in the first legal establishment, Brisbane, many moons ago, I agree that brothels should be wary of a change in stmpfing levels.
Certainly, a move that I would assume, will indeed, upset the "ladies".
Once again, thanks to AB, & "thanks be to private"!

Sienna xx