Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini promotes the abolition of the ban on brothels in Italy. Brothels that have been banned since the 1950s should be reopened, Salvini claimed today during a visit to the Friulian port city of Monfalcone. Italy should take Austria as an example.
The reopening of brothels was not included in the government treaty, as the coalition partner of the right-wing party Lega, the five-star movement, disagreed with this. The reintroduction of brothels, however, would be a way to deprive the mafia of the prostitution market, said the Interior Minister, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.
„Also from the sanitary point of view …“
„From a sanitary point of view, it would be safer to reintroduce brothels. The Austrian example is, in my opinion, the most efficient, „says Salvini.
The topic of the legalization of prostitution has been the subject of much controversy in Italy for years. Because of the flourishing street line, the possibility of reopening and controlling brothels has been under discussion for some years now.
It is estimated that there are up to 100,000 prostitutes in Italy, one third of them from abroad. More than half of them work on the street.
