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Originally Posted by SebC
Street prostitution is not legal, unless you've figured out a way to do it without public solicitation.
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Well, I'm tempted to say that you're exactly wrong--because it is the solicitation that is illegal and not the prostitution. But I do see your point, which I take to be that most street prostitution does not comply with the law because at some stage it involves solicitation.
The difficulty is that street prostitution is one of the clear policy outcomes of our present regime. It's much easier to crack down on a "bawdy-house" than it is to bust prostitutes who work mostly in their clients' cars.
But it is important to be clear: prostitution, including on the street and in the context of an "out-call" to a client's residence (also quite dangerous)
is legal. What is
illegal is "keeping a common bawdy-house," which means that the safest form of prostitution for sex workers is actually the only one that is specifically unlawful.