PRP: Decriminalize Prostitution
BRIESK - News of last weekend's prostitution bust did not take long to reach Steven Foong and Peter Krembs, Progressive-Reform Party candidates for Royal Assembly. In the midst of separate campaign events with local miners and their families in Gotha, they said they would support legislation to legalize consensual prostitution.
Former Peoples Representative Steven Foong first wondered whether it was straining the resources of the police forces, and then said, "I propose that we create a legal framework to protect sex workers of both genders from all kinds of abuses, especially trafficking and exposure to STDs."
"I will seek to decriminalize prostitution if elected to the Assembly," said Krembs, when asked at a separate event across town. "Sexual activity between two consenting adults affects no one else's rights."
Krembs opposes government intervention into any areas of the issue, including health. In that respect, his fellow Progressive differed. He said, "What they need is our help, not making life even more difficult for them."
Looming over the discussion is the question of whether Peter Hickey will accept an offer to run on the Progressive ticket. It was Hickey who fiercely opposed the successful 2002 effort that outlawed the practice in the first place.
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