Sex workers are hitting back at council methods. Prostitution in Australia is governed by state and territory laws meaning its degree of legality differs in each.
Picture: news. In order for a brothel to be closed down or for an illegal brothel to be uncovered, councils have to prove that sex is being sold on the premises. For a number of decades, NSW councils have paid private investigators to masquerade as customers looking for sex.
Mr Cox, who has been working in the sex industry for four decades and is completely legal and compliant with NSW law, told news. After brothels are closed down or raided by police for being non-compliant, Mr Cox — who chats to more than sex workers a year — said he has received a number of frantic calls. Lachlan Jarvis, the head of Lynswood Private Investigators, a firm employed by various councils to bust brothels, completely disputes that statement. Lynswood has been in the business of brothel busting for almost 15 years, investigating everything from venues set up without council approval to completely legal ones that might be staying open past approved operating hours.
Fire Banana Massage was an illegal brothel in Melbourne. In , Tom Dougherty, a philosophy professor from Cambridge University published a paper , calling it sexual assault. Lying to have sex is increasingly being seen as a form of sexual assault. Source:Getty Images. Our health and building officers use all enforcement powers available to them under state legislation to investigate complaints of illegal sex services, including the power to enter premises and seize evidence, and the power to compel people to provide information and records.
The City engages private investigators for this purpose. The use of private investigators has been acknowledged by the courts as a legitimate evidence gathering approach.
