MALAGA City Hall is set to ban street prostitution imposing fines for sexual practices carried out in public areas of up to €1,500.
Local business associations and residents in Malaga City demand street prostitution be banned completely, especially on the industrial estates where it is commonplace.
Residents and businesses claim they don’t want to ban prostitution as everyone has a right to do what they desire with their body, but they do want to make sure that it is transferred to a more “suitable” area.
Prostitution in Spain is not illegal and the council has found a way around this by proposing a local bylaw not referring to prostitution, but sanctioning sexual activity in public. If all goes ahead as planned, it could be introduced by October.
Lighting fires on the street will also be banned, something which is linked to prostitution, as many of the women who work on industrial estates light fires to keep warm in the winter.
The industrial estates are also being encouraged to offer jobs for women who want to find a way out of prostitution, and an association is carrying out a programme in which the street girls will be able to visit huts to rest, get a hot drink and be given help and advice.
This follows last month’s decision by Benalmadena Town Hall to speed up the process of putting rules in place which will allow police to fine clients found with prostitutes.
The Benalmadena bylaw is expected to come into effect some time this month.
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