The Justice Ministry is moving toward revising Japan's anti-prostitution law to punish the sex buyers, addressing a legal imbalance that has only targeted the sellers for 70 years, according to government sources.
Probably just make their fairly crap job worse. The new, more conservative government is pushing this as a pro-women “equal rights for both buyer and seller” policy, when really it just takes rights away from customers and furthers the goals of their puritan mindset.
The larger problems sex workers face (than equal penalties) is that they don’t do a ‘real job’ according to the govt, so cannot get social security coverage, no unions, and very limited legal protections for their high risk job. A situation ripe for exploitation by a criminal class.
If the government really wanted to protect them with equal rights they would follow the example of many/most western countries and legalize prostitution completely, granting tax status, social services and welfare, regulation of the industry, and legitimizing the work (thereby reducing the social stigma eventially).
NB: I was just reading that only intercourse is illegal, and even that was pretty lax law because the fine is only ~$130 US - less than prostitutes would generally earn from an individual client. So; oral sex, anal sex, etc: fully legal - this allows brothels and prostitutes to operate quite openly, advertise etc with few legal issues.
OK so getting paid for sex was already criminalised and now paying for sex is also criminalised.
What will this change for sex workers who are already in the business?
Probably just make their fairly crap job worse. The new, more conservative government is pushing this as a pro-women “equal rights for both buyer and seller” policy, when really it just takes rights away from customers and furthers the goals of their puritan mindset.
The larger problems sex workers face (than equal penalties) is that they don’t do a ‘real job’ according to the govt, so cannot get social security coverage, no unions, and very limited legal protections for their high risk job. A situation ripe for exploitation by a criminal class.
If the government really wanted to protect them with equal rights they would follow the example of many/most western countries and legalize prostitution completely, granting tax status, social services and welfare, regulation of the industry, and legitimizing the work (thereby reducing the social stigma eventially).
NB: I was just reading that only intercourse is illegal, and even that was pretty lax law because the fine is only ~$130 US - less than prostitutes would generally earn from an individual client. So; oral sex, anal sex, etc: fully legal - this allows brothels and prostitutes to operate quite openly, advertise etc with few legal issues.
Only PiV is illegal in Japan. All other sex work is explicitly legal.
Probably not much. This, in my opinion, serves two purposes:
They’ll get raped in jail, forced natalization, and lobotomized to breast feed.
RETURN to IMPERIUM.