Draft:Prositution In Denmark

Overview

Prostitution in Denmark has been decriminalized since 1999, however certain laws still regulate certain aspects of the industry. While selling sexual services is legal, a set of laws regulate the industry with the purpose of limiting solicitation, trafficking, and third-party involvement (pimping). This legal status places Denmark in opposition to many of its neighbours who have either sought to fully legalize or prohibit the sex trade by crimnalizing the purchase of sexual goods.

Laws concerning prosituion

Danish law prohibits people from obtaining economic gains from prositution carried out by others. This criminalizes pimping, however the legal definition of pimping is blurred. Brothels are criminalized since the owner of the brothel obtains economic gain from the prositutes working in the brothel. Some exceptions to this rule exist, brothels or massage cliniques that are run by multiple sex workers that have equal say on corporate matters are legal as determined by the Danish Supreme Court.

Finding prostitutes

For years prositutes had to reside in the streets to find potential customers. Especially Vesterbro in Copenhagen was known for having a lot of prostitutes roaming the streets. There has been a large decrease in the number of street prositutes during the last 30 years. Several factors have been driving this tendency. The widespread access to the internet has been one of the dominating factors since the prositutes have been enabled to use the internet to advertise their services online on sites created for the purpose.