I’ve absolutely no idea what it entails, but the one consensus across the board from other sex workers is that apparently it’s a terrible ‘model’ for governments to use for sex work
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The basic idea is that buying sex is illegal, but offering to sell sex is not. Thus, you could arrest a man who solicits sex from a sex worker, but not the sex worker.
One of the biggest problems with illegal sex work is that sex workers won’t go to the police to report being attacked because they themselves would face arrest and jail time for prostitution; this is even true of trafficked victims forced into prostitution. The (alleged) advantage of this is that it discourages men from engaging in the transaction, so you’re reducing sex work (which is the policy goal). At the same time, because the sex workers themselves are not at legal risk, they are able to go to the police if they are assaulted by a buyer.
Now, since sex workers are saying it doesn’t work out like that, I will take them at their word.
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