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Prostitution in Switzerland
Prostitution in Switzerland is legal and regulated; it has been legal since 1942. Trafficking, forcing people into prostitution and most forms of pimping are illegal. Licensed brothels, typically with a reception and leading to several studio apartments, are available. One estimate puts the number of street sex workers in Zurich at 5,000.
UNAIDS estimate there to be 20,000 prostitutes in the country. The majority are foreigners from the Americas, Central Europe or the Far East. In recent years the number of full service sex workers has increased. Many workers operate using newspaper advertisements, mobile phones and secondary rented apartments, some accept credit cards.
Prostitution in Switzerland was banned from the Protestant reformation in the 16th century until the Revue pénale suisse of 1889, when a regulation system of authorized brothels were formally tolerated in some of the cities, such as Bern, Zurich and Geneva, in order to prevent the spread of sexual diseases.
Switzerland was managed by local laws and the regulation system was used in specific cities for different time periods, several of which had introduced the system before it was recognized as a fact in 1889. The French regulation system of maisons de tolérance was introduced in Geneva in the early 19th century, in the 1840s in Zurich, and in 1873 in Lugano.
In the 1880s, the international campaign by Josephine Butler influenced a Swiss campaign by Christian moralists against the regulation system in the Swiss cities, and the system was abolished in Lugano in 1886, in Zurich in 1897 and in Lausanne in 1899; Bern followed in 1900. Between 1925 and 1942, prostitution was banned in Switzerland.
In Switzerland, prostitution has been legal since 1942. In 1992, the sexual criminal law was revised, since then pimping and passive soliciting are no longer punishable. The Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons between Switzerland and the EU of 21 June 1999, which was extended to Romania and Bulgaria in 2009, resulted in an increase in the number of prostitutes in the country.
In 2013, "sex boxes" were erected in the Altstetten district of Zurich (such as Strichplatz Depotweg) and one street where street prostitution was allowed was closed. In the same year, street prostitutes in Zurich had to buy nightly permits from a vending machine installed in the area at a cost of 5 francs.
In January 2014, it was publicly announced that inmates of La Pâquerette, a social therapy department for prisoners, were allowed to visit prostitutes in the Champ-Dollon detention center near Geneva, accompanied by social therapists.
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Prostitution in Switzerland
Prostitution in Switzerland is legal and regulated; it has been legal since 1942. Trafficking, forcing people into prostitution and most forms of pimping are illegal. Licensed brothels, typically with a reception and leading to several studio apartments, are available. One estimate puts the number of street sex workers in Zurich at 5,000.
UNAIDS estimate there to be 20,000 prostitutes in the country. The majority are foreigners from the Americas, Central Europe or the Far East. In recent years the number of full service sex workers has increased. Many workers operate using newspaper advertisements, mobile phones and secondary rented apartments, some accept credit cards.
Prostitution in Switzerland was banned from the Protestant reformation in the 16th century until the Revue pénale suisse of 1889, when a regulation system of authorized brothels were formally tolerated in some of the cities, such as Bern, Zurich and Geneva, in order to prevent the spread of sexual diseases.
Switzerland was managed by local laws and the regulation system was used in specific cities for different time periods, several of which had introduced the system before it was recognized as a fact in 1889. The French regulation system of maisons de tolérance was introduced in Geneva in the early 19th century, in the 1840s in Zurich, and in 1873 in Lugano.
In the 1880s, the international campaign by Josephine Butler influenced a Swiss campaign by Christian moralists against the regulation system in the Swiss cities, and the system was abolished in Lugano in 1886, in Zurich in 1897 and in Lausanne in 1899; Bern followed in 1900. Between 1925 and 1942, prostitution was banned in Switzerland.
In Switzerland, prostitution has been legal since 1942. In 1992, the sexual criminal law was revised, since then pimping and passive soliciting are no longer punishable. The Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons between Switzerland and the EU of 21 June 1999, which was extended to Romania and Bulgaria in 2009, resulted in an increase in the number of prostitutes in the country.
In 2013, "sex boxes" were erected in the Altstetten district of Zurich (such as Strichplatz Depotweg) and one street where street prostitution was allowed was closed. In the same year, street prostitutes in Zurich had to buy nightly permits from a vending machine installed in the area at a cost of 5 francs.
In January 2014, it was publicly announced that inmates of La Pâquerette, a social therapy department for prisoners, were allowed to visit prostitutes in the Champ-Dollon detention center near Geneva, accompanied by social therapists.