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Sex workers will be given the green light to operate on the streets of Victoria under new laws designed to keep industry workers safe.

The new rules will see street-based sex work legalised with the exception of only a few specific circumstances.

According to the government, the new laws will encourage sex workers to seek out support and report crimes made against them.

Many restrictions have been removed from advertising Victorian escort services.  Advertisements used to ban the words massage and massage therapist ridiculous. This was ridiculous because many male escorts were qualified massage therapists., These restrictions have been removed, including the requirements that the sex workers registration number had to be printed in at least 7point font.

On May 10, a raft of outdated sex work specific advertising criminal laws were repealed in Victoria, in a major win for sex workers’ rights and freedom of expression. The relaxation of advertising laws is the first set of sex industry law changes following the passage of the Sex Work Decriminalisation Act 2022 in February.

Looks like more and more states across Australia are decriminalizing prostitution. This happened in New Zealand, and street sex work became legal, as did brothels. Small brothels in New Zealand can be set up pretty much anywhere with no planning. The large establishments have to have planning permission. These laws make it safer for the sex workers.

The state of Victoria, Australia now allows street sex work with a very limited set of restrictions. Selling sex cannot happen near to schools, care services and places of worship, between 6am and 7pm and on holy days.

Victoria prostitutes can now feel safe to report crime and to access support. Everyone deserves to feel safe at work, and this milestone legislation is a step in the correct direction.

Victoria is the third jurisdiction to decriminalise sex work after New South Wales in 1995 and the Northern Territory in 2019.

There is to be a second round of Victoria's prostitution laws, and that is the scrapping of the sex worker licensing system.

An Australian escort writes about decriminalisation of sex work. At present the state of Victoria is in the process of decriminalising sex work. In this fight for decriminalisation, the Victorian  escort, Georgie Wolf, asks that people talk with sex workers. So many people are ignorant of sex work and always come up with the same old discredited tropes. These people have opinions and sex work based upon their feelings and what they have read in the media. Missing from these conversations are the actual  views of sex workers.

Please talk with sex workers, allow them to speak. Ignore those who speak over them, such as the Bindel's of this world.

There has been an uptick in Covid 19 cases in Victoria. Are these cases related to a St Kilda escort who has been spreading Covid in the bay area. 

There is some good news for Australian escorts in the state of Victoria. After many years of battle, Victorian escorts have won the argument on decriminalisation. Yes, Legislation to decriminalise sex work is about to go through the state parliament.

The consumer affairs minister, Melissa Horne, said the state government had accepted a recommendation made by the Reason Party MP Fiona Patten, who was commissioned by the Andrews government in 2019 to conduct a review into sex work.

Horne said the reform would bring Victoria into line with New South Wales, which decriminalised sex work in 1995, and the Northern Territory, and would make sex work safer.

“This is a really important reform that will bring into line the same rights and protection for sex workers as exist for any other worker in the state,” she said.

Dylan O’Hara, a spokesperson from the Vixen Collective, said it was a “huge day for Victorian sex workers”.

Victoria is looking to decriminalise prostitution. This Australian state is in a list of growing Governments of the world who are looking for the best way to regulate sex work. Decriminalise the industry and many of the harms will go away.

The Andrews government ministers are considering legislative reforms that Consumer Affairs Minister Melissa Horne said would protect sex workers. Sex work is a legitimate business and should be regulated through standard business laws.

Presently street sex work is a crime, though selling through registered Victoria brothels and Victoria escort agencies is allowed. However, the rules are complex and can lead to abuse

Founded in 2005, Vixen Collective is a peer only sex worker organisation made up entirely of current and former sex workers.

Peer-operated services are widely recognised as a best-practice model for service delivery.

Vixen Collective was recently granted an operating space within Victorian Trades Hall. It’s the first time it’s had a physical space since it was created, however, spokesperson, Jane Green says it’s ironic timing given the lockdowns.

The Victorian Government is currently undertaking a review to consider whether decriminalisation of sex work in Victoria is necessary. Fiona Patten MP is leading the review, and submissions from those within the industry are currently being sought to help shape the outcome of the inquiry.