In a recent move to combat sexually transmitted disease, the Home Secretary David Blunkett has made prostitution a legally recognised profession, and has granted “brothel licenses” to former underground institutions previously known as “houses of ill repute”. The sex industry is now regulated – prostitutes must register themselves with the inland revenue and obtain a clean bill of health from their local GUM clinic before their licence is granted. It is believed that these new regulations will go a long way towards halting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Chancellor Gordon Brown has said that the tax revenue raised from licensed brothels and freelance ladies of the night will be used to provide better service at GUM clinics and to fund the licensing authorities. Any remainder will be ploughed back into the NHS. Apparently, this will remove some of the burden on general taxation caused by the cost of treating STD’s and could lead to a more healthy and less repressed attitude towards sex in the general public. Ministers have unanimously applauded the new measures, which they say will relieve a lot of stress in political circles and executive suites alike. With prostitution now legal, they say that no business leader or high ranking politician will ever again be caught up in any sex scandal. Seeing as scandals of this nature can easily bring down a government or send a company to the wall, this can only be good for the stability of the country and the economy.