By Adam Shanks : sfexaminer – excerpt
A proposed resolution that would ask California lawmakers to legalize consensual sex work has been put on hold, with tis sponsor — SF Supervisor Hillary Ronen — citing differences of opinion about which aspects of the world’s oldest profession should be decriminalized.
It’s the world’s oldest profession — and remains one of the most vexing.
That’s why San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen has delayed her proposed resolution that would ask California lawmakers to legalize consensual sex work.
Ronen now plans to hold a hearing on the subject of sex work with testimony from experts in the field, and she hopes to draft a model law that The City could push state lawmakers to adopt.
Ronen first introduced the resolution in February in a hasty response to the rampant prostitution disrupting the daily life of residents near Capp Street, which sits in her district. The conditions on Capp Street had reached a new nadir, prompting Ronen to ask The City to establish concrete barriers that would at least stem the flow of late-night vehicle traffic.
The barriers are a temporary solution to an entrenched problem, Ronen acknowledges. If California would legalize sex work, Ronen hoped, it would be regulated and safe — without late-night transactions occurring on Capp Street sidewalks…(more)