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As a countermeasure against “tachinbo” (streetwalkers soliciting customers), a proposal to make buyers punishable too was a hot topic on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (Live News) board. Under the current Anti-Prostitution Law, licensed sex establishments are regulated separately as “managed prostitution,” while only street soliciting and waiting for customers are punishable — leaving little in the way of penalties for buyers. In the thread, opinions split between those who said tightening regulation would just push things underground, and those who said it would at least reduce the problem on the streets, with some also explaining that brothels/parlors aren’t the subject of this particular debate.
What people said
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Overall demand drops & the "safe" customers vanish
Nothing changes regulation-wise for managed prostitution, so brothels/parlors aren't affected.
What gets wiped out is street soliciting (tachinbo).
Fine if it goes underground.
Posting about it on X (Twitter) is the weird part.
That's probably not even on the table for them 😅
Just go get welfare already, right?
Can't happen.
They want spending money for fun, and they also tend to refuse welfare.
The Nordic model doesn't punish sellers at all, only buyers.
Punishing both sides is just the standard — that's not the Nordic model.
It sticks if she's indicted and ends up with a criminal record.
Prostitution cases are mostly not prosecuted, so an arrest alone won't leave a mark.
The girls work as independent contractors, so it's a "surely they're filing taxes properly" kind of thing.
There was a book, written by someone who supposedly worked at the National Tax Agency, saying there's a tendency not to crack down on sex workers.
At least the author said they'd never heard of a case where a sex worker got nailed for tax evasion.
but I never worked up the courage to actually go — am I done for now?
Is there any relief for guys like me? Is the ban only on street soliciting?
Just go to a regular soapland, you'll be fine.
Brothels have nothing to do with this.
This is an attempt to punish certain acts on the seller's side, to balance out the fact that street soliciting and touting by buyers is already punishable. Managed prostitution only punishes the managers (the ones running the operation) in the first place — sellers themselves aren't punished, and there's no incentive to touch the buyer side there.
but fundamentally, women who already make their living off it never actually get saved by this — it doesn't help anyone.
The real goal is grant money, dressed up as a "relief measure" by making both selling and buying illegal.
NPOs are mixed up in it, so the answer's already obvious.
That was the goal from the start — what actually happens to the women is beside the point.
Street soliciting will definitely go down though, so it's good for local residents at least.
I'd like to call this a "solo honey-trap scam" (badger game).
More like blackmail than getting sued.
Seriously, it's just a badger game (honey-trap scam).
Developed countries are increasingly turning people away at entry for this.
There are apparently still lax countries though.
Anti-prostitution-buying laws came from overseas in the first place.
STDs have apparently spread to a point of no return, right? They need protecting.
No way the women's groups would ever allow that.
There's no money in it for them.
Making it state-run would force strictness both substantively and procedurally, which would only make the underground scene flourish even more.
Overall it's better to have things dominated by the current loose-but-registered brothel system that still maintains some order.
They should turn a blind eye to brothels that operate quietly and let them prosper, while stamping out street soliciting and the like one by one.
The Anti-Prostitution Law doesn't criminalize prostitution itself,
but soliciting or waiting for customers in a way visible to the public is punishable.
Prostitution is a crime 🥺
Background and key points of this topic
The current Anti-Prostitution Law doesn’t criminalize the act of prostitution itself, but soliciting or waiting for customers in a way visible to the public is punishable. Managed prostitution is structured so that only the operator side is punished, and licensed brothels/parlors aren’t the subject of this particular debate. The term “Nordic model” came up in the thread, but that model properly refers to a system that punishes only buyers and not sellers at all — an easy point of confusion, since it differs from this proposal, which assumes punishment on both sides. Opinions split between the view that tightening regulation will just push things underground, and the view that it will at least reduce street soliciting, and it’s worth noting that the claim that NPOs are involved for the sake of grant money remains unsubstantiated speculation.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Recurring] Punishing buyers of prostitution too — looks like the start of hell for bottom-tier prostitutes.”
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