Estimates have placed the annual revenue generated worldwide by prostitution – making money out of sexual intercourse – to be over US$1 billion. 1 This may be dwarfed by professional soccer, for example, which generates US$25 billion annually, 2 but imagine what it would be like if there were TV rights, and sponsorship ranging from sports goods brands, to alcohol to insurance involved in the prostitution industry? Oh, and one other small factor in the US$24 billion difference – professional soccer is not illegal in a vastly greater proportion of the World. 3
It is illegal in South Africa. The Sexual Offences Act 1957 sees to that, and illegalises most things to do with prostitution.
A brothel is any place used for prostitution, or for persons to visit for the purpose of having unlawful carnal intercourse 4 or for any other lewd or indecent purpose. 5
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