Scope[ edit ] The bill is framed as an amendment to the Legge Merlin of 20 February , No 75 by providing for penalties for the act of prostitution, solicitation, or availing oneself of sexual services in a place open to the public Art. Article 2 amends article bis of the penal code to provide penalties for recruiting, inducing, promoting, using, managing, organizing, controlling, or profiting from the sexual services of a person under 18, or for those promising any kind reward for a sexual act with a person between 14 and It also provides for repatriation of foreign minors engaging in prostitution.
Article 3 deals with organized crime, penalizing conspiracy to exploit prostitution via article of the penal code. Article 4 provides no new resources and repeals article 5 of the Legge Merlin, which it replaces, prohibiting libertinaggio solicitation constituting offence or harassment subject to up to 15 days imprisonment.
Legislative history[ edit ] The bill S. As with previous attempts this has attracted much criticism. Under these powers, sex workers and clients have been subjected to ordinances that permit municipal police to administer fines. The Public Security Law enables police chiefs to expel persons from a city in which they do not officially reside. EU citizens are subject to fines while non-EU citizens may be placed in detention centres and deported.
The Comitato reports a breakdown in relationships between NGOs and authorities and between NGOs and workers, an avoidance of health services and an increase in criminal activity. While enforcement varies by region and over time, the immediate effect has been the expected and desired one of clearing the streets at least temporarily and displacing workers to remote areas. Indoors work has increased, and quality of life in general has deteriorated.
Unprotected sex has increased due to reduced ability to negotiate. Stigmatization and vulnerability have increased, as has a greater reliance on social services. As noted in other countries, as soon as police activity is reduced, older work patterns reappear. So, the simple exercise of street prostitution could be no more persecuted by this kind of local bills.
