A new law in Belgium has set a new standard for protecting a class of people long abused and exploited by the masses: Pimps.
Yes, you read that correctly: The purveyors of the sex trade enjoy new rights under legislation just passed in the country that serves as the seat of the European Union. Their biggest legal protection? If one of their prostitutes refuses to have sex with a “customer” more than 10 times in a six-month period, the pimp can appeal to the government to serve as a mediator to resolve the “dispute.”
What do prostitutes get out of this arrangement you might ask? Well, the legislation affords them a right to health insurance, a pension, and maternity leave, just as employees at a regular upstanding business would get. Notably, the union representing prostitutes was among the law’s advocates.
Yet as much as the red-light industry would like to claim…
