Journal of Constitutional Law (Dec 2022)
Georgian Regime of Regulation of Prostitution and its Watchdogs
Abstract
Prostitution is prohibited by Georgian regime of prostitution, and a sex worker is punished, but not a client. The actions of third parties are also criminalized. Even today, the sex work is still considered in the moral context, and the addressee of criticism is both, the buyer of this service, and the sex worker, and all critics judge them from the standpoint of their subjective moral prism of admissibility or inadmissibility, and require the punishment of either one, or another. The purpose of the article is to review the regimes of prostitution and to select the best experience. Consideration of these issues is important for revision of Georgian regime of prostitution, which is the source of violation of human rights and unjustified police repression. The purpose of this article is not to romanticize prostitution, but rather to identify the source of the harm (that is inherent to this work) and seek ways to reduce it in order to make the environment safe for sex workers, so that they enjoy all of the rights that are guaranteed to all by the Constitution. The question of the constitutionality of the legislation defining prostitution in Georgia was brought to the Constitutional Court in 2018, although the claim has not been considered yet. Against this background, in this article, we will try to make our small contribution to the identification of the problem and the ways to solve it.
