Street prostitution is a form of sex work in which a sex worker solicits customers from a public place, most commonly a street, while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, but also other public places such as parks, benches, etc. The street prostitute is often dressed in a provocative manner. The sex act may be performed in the customer's car or in a nearby secluded street location, or at the prostitute's residence or in a rented motel room. Street prostitution is often illegal, even in jurisdictions that allow other forms of prostitution.
It is estimated that only percent of sex workers are working in the streets; however, it is also estimated that 90 percent of the arrests of prostitutes are of street workers. In some jurisdictions where prostitution itself is legal, such as in the United Kingdom , street prostitution has been made illegal.
Some jurisdictions also outlaw kerb crawling , slowly driving around with the intent to procure the services of a prostitute. In Australia , in New South Wales it is legal to solicit on the streets, except in some areas such as near schools. Street prostitution is legal in New Zealand. In the United States , street prostitution is illegal in all 50 states; 49 of the states outlaw all forms of prostitution; Nevada allows licensed brothels, but only in some rural areas, not in the major metropolitan areas only 8 counties have active brothels and prostitution outside these brothels is illegal throughout the state.
In four towns in the Netherlands , a special zone tippelzone is designated for legal street prostitution.
Street prostitutes are extremely vulnerable to physical and sexual assaults. This is roughly four times the wage of other jobs available to them. Prostitutes are arrested once for every encounters and every 10th arrest results in jail time. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
