Romanian Touring Girls

[silverfox]

Four girls working from one apartment? That makes it a brothel doesn't it which is illegal - beware because even punters using brothels can be prosecuted! Solo escorts though are a different matter.

Can you expand on this

Sarah x x x

Hi Sarah
Details below:


The Sexual Offences Act 2003 changed most sex work laws, and has since been changed further.

Working alone indoors, or for an agency or in a brothel

All remain legal. Provided the worker is at least 18, and has not been coerced or deceived into providing the service, buying sex from them is also legal.

'Pimping', running an agency or brothel

All remain illegal.

Controlling another adult's prostitution is only illegal if you gain from it (or know that someone else does). Looked at another way, gaining from someone else's prostitution is now legal: it's the control for gain that's illegal, carrying a maximum penalty of seven years in prison.

So sex workers' families are now free of the risk of being charged with "living on the earnings of prostitution" (the offence from 1956 to 2004, often wrongly known as "living on immoral earnings").

This is the main charge used against owners of escort agencies and brothels: "control" has no implications of coercion. (The next time you hear politicians complain about criminals being involved in running agencies and brothels, remember that they ensured that everyone doing so is a criminal!)

Brothels

In addition, it is specifically illegal to own or run a 'disorderly house' or brothel – anywhere more than one woman or man resorts to for sex outside marriage. As this doesn't necessarily have to be at the same time, or involve sexual intercourse or, indeed, any payment, a very wide range of places are therefore 'brothels'! (Remember that it's legal to be a sex worker at a brothel provided you don't assist in its management.)

A new law enables police to close suspected brothels, and changes to the Proceeds of Crime Act mean that they have a financial incentive to go after 'easy' targets like known brothels.