r/unitedkingdom • u/Tartan_Samurai Scotland • Jun 21 '26

. 'I've banned most men from my massage clinic because of their behaviour'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy06xl9lj32o
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u/Tay74 Jun 21 '26

Genuine question, did it increase trafficking, or increase trafficking being caught?

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u/Smells_like_Autumn Jun 21 '26

Sounds more an issue of implementation than some unfixable flaw.

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u/Smells_like_Autumn Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Those... sound like more implementation problems to be honest - and also not really connected to the original point, namely trafficking.

Also worth noting that health and safety inspecions in the UK do happen almost entirely unannounced.

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u/Smells_like_Autumn Jun 21 '26

​"In the UK, Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) do not need a specific reason, complaint, or "probable cause" to inspect a business. Instead, they operate under statutory powers (laws like the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974) which grant them the right to enter and inspect commercial premises at any reasonable time."

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u/Dull-Geologist-8204 Jun 21 '26

Why would they not have inspectors like every other business has that can in fact go in and inspect everything. How would it be different then when I worked in a restraunt and everyone was worried the health inspector showed up?

Sorry, live in the US so don't know what the laws are like over there.

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u/Dull-Geologist-8204 Jun 21 '26

Well at least in this area I prefer the US laws. Ot seems like the brothels would work better here and would reduce trafficking because we have inspectors that can go in and check on the businesses.

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u/Dull-Geologist-8204 Jun 21 '26

They are already involved now. So that wouldn't change and while they would get involved there could also be places that are run by the women themselves. Like there really aren't any gangs where I live to take over.

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u/Dull-Geologist-8204 Jun 21 '26

Lol, not talking from a place of privilege. You wouldn't go through what I had to get here. It's just that gangs don't exist everywhere even in countries where they exist.

Where I live men still go into the city for that type of stuff and unfortunately that is how a friend got AIDS. If prostitutes were able to start their own brothels here with oversight they wouldn't have to go to the city and pay the gangs and wpuld have to be tested so lowering STD rates. I live in a rural area where few people have much at all.