Switzerland: New laws proposed for legal Prostitution (Time.com)

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ZURICH - responsible and have decided that this city in expansion of the legal sex industry should be better organized. Zurich municipal authorities have proposed a series of amendments to the current regulation of prostitution which would allow prostitutes continue plying their trade, but only in three specific areas - including an equipped with the new cabins to accommodate their clients.

The proposed measures, which require the approval of the Council of the city, including prohibiting prostitution Street along the Sihlquai Bank and in the occupied area of the Langstrasse. In Exchange, the activity will be allowed between Aargauerstrasse and Würzgrabenstrasse, outside the city centre, where booths will be built to accommodate the sex workers and their clients. (See pictures of South Korean prostitutes to protest against the closure of brothels).

Street prostitutes will be able to always work in the pedestrian area of nightlife of the city, the centralized Niederdorf and soliciting customers of vehicle in Allmend Brunau. The Zurich City Council expects that the new laws go into effect January 1, 2012.

Introducing new measures to the media - at a press conference on 25 may City Hall was three of the nine councillors of city of Zurich: Claudia Nielsen, Daniel Leupi and Martin Waser, which are responsible, respectively, for the health and environment policy, police and social issues.

Leupi explained that the purpose of the Council of the city by presenting the measures to combat trafficking in human beings, offer an appropriate response to the victims, minimize the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and to protect sex workers and the whole of the population of the violence. (Is Mexico City a red-light district?)

Councillor Waser explained that at peak hours, when up to 120 sex workers can work at the same time, street solicitation can be a real disruption to ordinary people - thus the need to harness the activity of the designated areas.

According to Nielsen, the number of sex in Zurich in 2010 had increased significantly in recent years, with many new workers arriving from Hungary. Nielsen said that the increase in the number of workers has also increased the risks of pimping and trafficking human. The new measures, she explained, were not the so anti-prostitution as the fight against trafficking.

As the sex workers often have information on their rights, Nielsen said, the Council sought to advise prostitutes by establishing direct lines of communication. Once the new regulation is in place, the sex workers - they work or the streets - will also have to obtain licences.

Introduction "sex boxes".
Other developments include the creation of a special commission in which representatives of NGOs local will also sit and measures to ensure that resources are allocated as efficiently as possible.

The Council had initially planned to build 10 cabins, commonly known as boxes of sex, of Altstetten - more to be built if the amount of activity warrants. The resources currently allocated to destination will be switched to the new area, so additional fees only, provided $ 2.8 million will be those to build the boxes.

The new Altstetten prostitution zone will be easy to monitor, control and protect, say members of the Council. It will be operated and maintained by social services. Residents of the region have been informed of the plan. Plans for the design and construction of boxes of sex, should be ready in the spring of 2012, are already underway.

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Students consider prostitution to pay for school? (Reuters)

BERLIN (Reuters) - one in three students of the University in the German capital would consider sex work as a means to finance their studies, a study by the Center for studies of Berlin said Wednesday.

Figure in Berlin, where prostitution is legal, was higher than students surveyed in Paris (29.2%) and in Kiev (18.5%), the three cities the report looked at.

The study found some 4 percent of the 3,200 students Berlin interviewed said that they had already done a form any sex work, which includes prostitution, erotic dances and performances of the Internet.

The results have surprised the authors of the study, who said that they have undertaken the study because student prostitution has often been reported, but few knew about her relationship with education policy.

"The primary motivation of students to turn to prostitution were financial incentives, namely the high salary schedules," Eva Blumenschein, one of the authors of the study and a student of 26 years at the Berlin Humboldt University, told Reuters.

Blumenschein said recent educational reforms aimed at speeding up the time of the students at the University can play a role in their search for sex work.

"It is possible that because educational reforms have increased student workload, they have less time to earn money," she said. "Coupled with higher costs of the student, in this case, student led to prostitution."

Thirty per cent of students working in the sex industry were indebted, the study found.

As compared to 18% of students who said that they would consider sex work that were indebted.

(Statement by Eric Kelsey, editing by Paul Casciato)

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