The Impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the Health and Safety Practices of Sex Workers Report [pdf, 819 KB]
...to contribute to a pattern of evidence to achieve conviction against operators of venues and sex workers. With the operation of brothels made illegal, brothel owners ran their businesses under the front of massage parlours, which were a legally permitted enterprise. The Massage Parlours Act 1978 provided for the licensing of massage parlour operators, but did not refer to the provision of commercial sexual services. Sex workers were vulnerable to coercive and exploitative practic...