[5sunny5]

It was in the late 90s jogret. My mum who lives interstate had a panic attack and rang me immediately she heard about it on the radio. They didn't report immediately that she was a prostitute, just that a girl had been found dead in an alley off Carlisle St.

That area used to be awful for kerb crawlers, they'd follow anyone who looked vaguely female...I would be walking my dog and they'd proposition me. Yep, cos I'm working, with my dog. But he's extra!

[Guest_GertrudeB_*]

As I understood it, before recent legislation, prostitution as a business transaction between a woman and her client was not illegal but women could be charged with soliciting and pimps with living of the immoral earnings of a woman. A person could also be charged with running a bawdy house or allowing their premises to be used as a brothel.

Brothels are now legal but regulated. Unregulated ones are still illegal. Soliciting on the streets is still illegal but advertising in the papers isn't. You can use your own home provided no more than 2 sex workers are involved. In this case it is not considered to be a brothel.

[jogret]

I had the same thing 55sunny55 - I'd be on my way home with an arm full of textbooks and jeans and a Tshirt and I'd get asked. BTW - I was in the big brick block of flats at no. 74 (from memory) - just saying - cos it would be v.wierd if you were same block. Sorry - too much OT!

[5sunny5]

That would be weird Jogret, LOL. No, I was in a house about 50 metres from the milkbar, near Barkly st. My boyfriend had lovely long blonde hair and he also used to get propositioned often...

[FluffyChickenhea...]

Of course.

Just regulated to protect the workers.

[seepi]

Brothels are legalised and regulated in the ACT. Unfortunately this is useless, as regulation just means they have some kind of certificate of business. they are never inspected or checked in any way, so they may as well be illegal I think.

Last year an underage girl was found dead of an overdose in a brothel, and even despite that no inspections or anything have occurred.

[RatbagBob]

That area used to be awful for kerb crawlers, they'd follow anyone who looked vaguely female...I would be walking my dog and they'd proposition me. Yep, cos I'm working, with my dog. But he's extra!

LOL! I used to get kerb crawlers following me on William St in Sydney while I was waiting for a bus/taxi home from a friend's house nearby. The funny thing is that it would have been no use because South Sydney Council instituted a no-left-turn into the next residential street due to kerb crawlers using that street as a pick up.

It always used to make me laugh because I was always fully dressed, albeit in knee-high boots and a belted fake fur coat while the local prostitutes were in lingerie, so I always felt like saying "Don't you realise I have a few too many clothes to be the person you're after?"

[TEN!]

However, the one that people often don't think about is if it is legalised, and they advertise a position and you are on Centrelink and looking ofr employment, you may be required to apply for that position/job.

Nope, not true. You don't have to apply for work that you object to on moral grounds, say for example a receptionist in a brothel, or a sex worker. In the same way as you can be forced to apply to joing the armed forces.

Nice try with the scare tactics though.

This post has been edited by Privileged: 02/10/2010, 09:58 PM

[caitiri]

Not sure if your still procrastinating but try looking up

Gunilla Ekberg
The scarlet alliance
CATWA (coalition against traffiking of women australia, i think it stands for)

Oh and anything to do with the WA debate about legalising prostition as it is the most recent law reform debate in Aus

This post has been edited by caitiri: 02/10/2010, 10:04 PM

[5sunny5]

It always used to make me laugh because I was always fully dressed, albeit in knee-high boots and a belted fake fur coat

No wonder BTK, you must've looked sexy in that get up. I used to mosey to the shop in a flanny, grungy jeans and thongs. St Kilda gutter crawlers are far less discerning!

House prices in my old stomping grounds have gone through the roof though, so I wonder if the street walkers have been moved on to other areas.