http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/world/europe/24amsterdam.html?_r=1&oref=sloginI know that prostitution will always be around so it makes sense for regulation yet there appears to be little agreement on what works. There's still many issues that keep workers from feeling safe in the trade. The Netherlands appeared to be in hopes of protecting the workers by offering work permits and rights, but it is beginning to seem that prostitution can't be normalized. Amsterdam has seen a large increase in illegal immigrant workers (More than "75 percent of Amsterdam’s 8,000 to 11,000 prostitutes, including 1,000 men, were from Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.") and the brothels were usually run by retired madams but there's been a power shift "from madams to Dutch and Eastern European pimps."
"Mr. Cohen, the mayor of Amsterdam, recalled that in 2000, the Dutch legalized prostitution, intending to make the sex trade more transparent and protect women by giving them work permits. “We realize that this hasn’t worked, that trafficking in women continues,” he said. “Women are now moved around more, making police work more difficult.”
A task force set up by the mayor’s office, in a report last year, said that the marijuana cafes and the licensed brothels had helped generate more crime by providing legal outlets. “The marijuana and the women have to come from somewhere, and organized crime fills much of this demand,” the study said. The money earned in this lucrative trade is pumped back into the area, widening the criminal circle, it said."
Also, my thing about robot sex-workers was a joke. I meant to explain that because sex-workers have psychological and physical reactions to sexual activity, there is no way that the sex act could not affect them.
