Municipalities in the Netherlands will soon be required to register people who are participating in sex work to determine if they are doing so voluntarily, and if they meet minimum age and language ability requirements. The measure is meant to guarantee that people earning money from legal sex work have not been coerced, and are protected from abuse
It is not at all good for municipalities to register who is playing the role of the whore,” Van Dorst told the newspaper. It is “a useless solution, to the disadvantage of prostitutes who lose an important piece of privacy.” The measure is only meant as a show piece for municipalities to say they have their house in order.