Belgium is the second country to authorize it

Sex workers would be more than 20,000 in Belgium. They practice in shop windows, on the street or on the Internet. Iris is contacted by her clients on the Internet. She assumes her job, but she often had to lie to do this job on a daily basis. Until now, a lessor, a banker or an insurer who signed a contract with her could be prosecuted for pimping. It is now over, because Belgium has decriminalized prostitution.

Iris is very satisfied. “You realize that I was considered someone who was doing criminal activities. I was considered a drug dealer. There, I am considered a real worker“, she asserts. Almost twenty years after New Zealand, Belgium is the second country to take this decision. The new law will enable them to obtain social rights. The law was adopted quite widely in Parliament, but the measure is still debated, because for some, it will facilitate the exploitation and trafficking of certain women.