> It really drives home the point that if you want to legislate ways to protect sex workers, you should actually talk to sex workers and not make up feel good bs that can harm people.
There's a tiny but really interesting museum in Amsterdam set up by a former sex worker that explains exactly this. The safety regulations they're looking for really aren't all that different from how cities regulate taxis.
Like driving a taxi, sex work can be a dangerous job because they're alone with a client, often at night, and with a fair bit of cash on them. A lot of time the clients are drunk, which makes them more likely to be violent. And, because many of the workers are immigrants, there's a risk they're being exploited by someone taking a significant portion of their earnings.
Allowing credit card transactions, issuing taxi medallions, requiring worker background checks, and, most importantly, having police who actually investigate crimes reported by workers, has gone a long way to make driving a cab a much safer occupation than it was two decades ago.
I'm not sure about credit cards in de Wallen but they have a medallion-like system with the booth rentals.
There's a tiny but really interesting museum in Amsterdam set up by a former sex worker that explains exactly this. The safety regulations they're looking for really aren't all that different from how cities regulate taxis.
Like driving a taxi, sex work can be a dangerous job because they're alone with a client, often at night, and with a fair bit of cash on them. A lot of time the clients are drunk, which makes them more likely to be violent. And, because many of the workers are immigrants, there's a risk they're being exploited by someone taking a significant portion of their earnings.
Allowing credit card transactions, issuing taxi medallions, requiring worker background checks, and, most importantly, having police who actually investigate crimes reported by workers, has gone a long way to make driving a cab a much safer occupation than it was two decades ago.
I'm not sure about credit cards in de Wallen but they have a medallion-like system with the booth rentals.