09 Jan Customers need require the fresh membership citation of their sex employee, if you don’t they’re also liable to prosecution
But the registration is also about control; in the words of the minister for justice, ‘Compulsory registration increases the visibility and the grip on the sex sector and retrieves prostitutes from anonymity' (idem, 51-8-59). All the secular parties objected to registration on the grounds of the right to privacy. 30, Derde Nota van Wijziging, ). This leaves open the question how a client is then supposed to check whether the sex worker was registered or not; an issue which has been left to later regulation.
Just after contrary the citation do disclose the fresh sex worker's genuine term toward consumer, this new minister retracted the latest violation, yet not the brand new membership (TK, 2010–2011, 32211, no
The raising of the age of consent for sex work to 21 years was less controversial, although the left-wing parties and the Social Liberals had doubts about its effectiveness in curbing forced prostitution.