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Prostitution is legal in England and Wales
But just like in our proposal in must be in private, no public street
solicitation. They only allow individual providers not brothels but one can
freely advertise unless its too graphic. Actually this sounds quite reasonable
to me.
Under the Street Offences Act 1959, it is an offence for a common prostitute to
loiter or solicit in a street or public place for the purposes of prostitution.
In order to count as a 'common prostitute' and be charged with loitering or
soliciting, you must have received at least two 'street cautions' in the last
year. A street caution is given verbally on the street, and on the evidence of
two or more police officers, and is kept on police records.
Likewise the Kerb crawling law prohibits men from soliciting a women for
prostitution on the street or in a public place. The only penalty is a fine. The
purpose seems to make sense to avoid harassment of women on the street who are
not prostitutes.
It is legal to provide sexual services in a house or flat as long as there is
only one person selling sex. If there are more than that, the premises classify
as a brothel and you may be at risk from SOA section 33.
It is not illegal to advertise sexual services, although if the ads are
extremely graphic and are likely to 'deprave or corrupt ' persons likely to see
them, they may fall foul of the Obscene Publications Act 1959.