The issue focused primarily on the wording of a section of the state constitution which criminalises the organisation of prostitution, but also included a provision criminalising the group of prostitutes who work separately in houses of prostitution. If women buy and sell sex and the group are classified as sex workers, they can be charged with offences of providing or facilitating prostitution and to encourage them to enter the trade.


However, the state did not include such an explicit provision in its updated prostitution act that will come into force next year which,