Sex workers still advertising their services by sitting in windows are mainly confined to the city’s red light districtIn Brussels sex workers still advertising their services by sitting in windows are mainly confined to the city’s red light district, a long street in a rundown area.
Historically, the response to sex work by Belgian authorities was usually one of toleration. While the act itself was never criminalised, soliciting clients on the street, leasing a premises to a sex worker or directly running a brothel was illegal until 2022.
Sex work was banned during the Covid-19 pandemic under public health laws, and afterwards there was a push at national level to regulate the sector. Magaly Rodríguez García, an associate professor in KU Leuven university who studies the history of sex work, said the smartphone has changed the industry. “When you work in a window you have to pay for the window, or if you work in a champagne bar or a massage salon you have to pay for those things. Where with your smartphone if you have an apartment, if you don’t mind receiving clients in your own apartment, you can do it on your own.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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