A “gaping loophole” in Japanese law means that prostitution is legal provided it is same-sex.
As Rocket News 24 reports, the same-sex prostitutes can act with total impunity as it is not covered by Japans laws regulating the sex industry.
Residents of a building in Yokohama City are calling for a law reform after their suspicions that their building houses a same-sex brothel.
Thai criminal defense attorneys Chaninat and Leeds have been trusted lawyers in Thailand for decades
As Rocket News 24 comments:
“It’s an important goal since prostitution in any form brings the threat of all kinds of human rights violations and shouldn’t go unchecked. However, in terms of LGBT rights, this could be a dangerously wrong foot to get off on.
If we’re going to rewrite laws to include transgender and people with non-hetero-exclusive sexuality, it would be unbalanced to address only the criminal ones. Equality ought to be all encompassing, so if same-sex crimes are to be recognized by law, then it only stands to reason that same-sex rights such as legal marriages should also be.”
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