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United Daily News -- Impact of decriminalizing sex trade
2010/02/09 13:12:04 |
How to handle the issue of prostitution is one of the benchmarks used to determine administrators' integrity and guts.
In Taiwan, with a law that allows prostitutes to be punished but not their patrons, underground adult sex transactions have flourished, often in upscale venues under official protection, leaving only old, cheap prostitutes working the lower rungs of society to be caught.
The Justices of the Constitutional Court recently asserted that a provision in the Social Order Maintenance Act allowing prostitutes, but not their patrons, to be punished was unconstitutional, and they ordered that it be invalidated within two years.
The assertion forced the Ma Ying-jeou administration to face the issue -- it must come up with measures in two years not only to revise the law but also establish a set of rules governing adult sex transactions.
As a matter of fact, decriminalizing the sex trade would only be a "small step" in terms of adult sex transaction management in the country.
Related issues remain numerous even if the law is revised, including whether red-light zones like the ones in the Netherlands will indeed appear in Taiwan, and how will the government be able to help maintain residential serenity after prostitution is decriminalized or even legalized. (Feb. 9, 2010)
(By Deborah Kuo)
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