Dr. Teresa Whitaker:

We have good laws at the moment. There are laws against soliciting and human trafficking, and laws that prevent children from being sexually abused. There is a range of laws to protect people. We are not lawyers, however, so we are not saying that sex work should be decriminalised, we are pointing out that the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization all say this.

Perhaps the legislation on brothel keeping should be reviewed so women could work in pairs. In New Zealand they can work in fours. Women could work in twos without third party involvement. If there was no pimp running a brothel, but it was two women working on their own, as they often do from an apartment, that law on brothel keeping might be reviewed. We are trying to consider safety for sex workers and how we can make it safer for them.