egulated and criminalized then it’s going to be run by criminals”(Sassons 1). The same town hall official on the legalization of prostitution in Holland, states that this “will provide the authorities with a potent weapon in their fight against crime in Holland’s red-light district: red tape of bureaucracy”(Sassons 2). Legalization of prostitution will bring more safety, legitimacy and autonomy to the industry as a whole. Laws would distinguish between voluntary and forced prostitution. The pimp or brothel owner would be open to prosecution for abuses. Examples of violence, from the book A Vindication of Rights of Whores, tells of police providing no protection to prostitutes. Even when reports came to the police in Sydney, Australia, of “women being lassoed and dragged behind a car,” and of women disappearing, police did nothing (Pheterson 60). When these men finally killed a nurse who was an ex-beauty queen, the men were arrested in a matter of days. When prostitutes saw the three men accused in the paper, the women said “That’s the guy, those are the men who have been committing violence against us”(Pheterson 60). The Australian Prostitutes’ Collective went to police and told them these men were responsible for the violence against them in the last few months. The attitude from the police was “Look, if these women weren’t here in the first place, this sort of thing wouldn’t happen”(Pheterson 60). It is easy to see the contrast between the attitude of the police toward violence on all the street women and the murder of the one single woman. In a matter of days, after the murder of a beauty queen, the police had three men in custody. There is a good deal of evidence to show that the amount of victimization prostitutes experience in the course of their work is very high. For example, according to The International Handbook on Trends, Problems and...
