Sausage Roll
Whether you are against it or not , it will continue. It has done for thousands of years .

Cliff
Not a good idea, it is wrong and may encourage young women to venture into a life of prostitution with the premise that it is 'almost' legal. Liverpool has potential as City of culture, not City of Vultures.

frank
EVERYONE EVERYWHERE SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO A SAFE WORKING ENVIROMENT NO MATTER IF YOUR A TEACHER,DOCTOR ,COPPER OR VICE GIRL/BOY/.

Jay
The zones they are looking at are close by residential areas - a few hundred yards. Why not concentrate time and efforts on helping these women get out of prostitution? As long as people keep saying things like "it will always go on", then it will and these women will not be helped. Local businesses will not want to be known as being located in the red light area as well. It all sounds very laudable and very liberal but since when has that been an excuse for ignoring what is right? Invest in making sure the women are helped and the dirty men who use them prosecuted.

Thomas
making liverpool a safe zone would increase the no of prostitutes and the men it can lead many people coming from cities,and perhaps from other countries too. which could increase the crime and other related problems. so better STOP PROSTITUTION ITSELF....

Phil
For anyone who has enjoyed all aspects of Amsterdam then why not convert the North Dock area near the Heritage market to model a minature Amsterdam.

dave
a great idea, a safer environment for the girls i think if this is set up then it should also take pressure from the police,enabeling more policing of the city and surrounding areas

Mark
I think this is a great idea! Not just for the safety of local residents but for the safety of people that this is a job to. And Liverpool will become the first city to do this and lead the way for other cities.

Gerry
I find Liverpuddlians are generally a very tolerant people. Let them lead the way in establishing a "tolerance zone" for prostitutes on Merseyside. Men will be men, and it would help keep organised crime away from these vulnerable women. If they choose for whatever reason to do this with their lives, let them do it in safety.

Pete
This is someting that should have been done years ago. it is sensible for all those involved. hopefully the girls will also get the protection they need and deserve from the Police. the girls provide a much needed service. This will also take away the problem of non-working girls being approached in the current unoffiacial Red light Zones.

Jenny
This is a brilliant idea. Working girls need protection the same as everyone else. It will cut down on the transmission of the HIV virus through health checks; it will hopefully reduce the indcidence of rape; the girls will be in a safe environment where social workers can councel them, and it will project an image of Liverpool to the world as a forward thinking progressive 21st century city.

Bernard
This is a problem that cannot be brushed under the carpet. If it is regulated then everyone involved would be self employed, paying tax, thus putting something back into the community.

KAY
Its important to move protitution away from residential areas.

Gail
I think that keeping the prostitutes all in one place makes them and the local people safer. The non-residential areas they're suggesting sound like a good idea. These girls need protecting not shunning.

Mike
If it will stop the girl having to work the streets while her 'pimp' waits in the car then it can't be such a bad thing

andy
its never going to go away, so its easier to regulate it all and put it somewhere out of the way of where people have to live, gets rid of kerb crawlers from innocent neighbourhoods etc

Phil
A prostitute working from home and employing nobody else in her business is working within the law already. What they are doing is legalising soliciting. Isn't it going to be wonderful for workers in the industrial areas when they have to clean up used condoms in the mornings

Helen
If these women want to put themselves at risk by hanging around the streets let them. I am assuming that this scheme is being paid for with tax payers' money. If they want to clean up the city, at leat use our money to help get these prostitutes proper respectable jobs!

Aidan
The situation is this. Prostitution is always going to be available whether being a criminal offence or not, so it would be in the interest of the police to make this sauce of income a reputable one. The only issue is, is it going to consentrate the police force towards proper criminals or just making money out of placing more speed camaras.

BARNABY
About time this industry was draged into the 21st Century. Perhaps this will pave the way for licensing and taxing as well as keeping people safe.

Bryan
bit of a difficult one this, how can you legislate this if on one hand are essentially legalising drug use indirectly for the majority of the prostitutes, but i undertstand the theory its damage limitation to help prevent disease & infection and danger to the people who are involved.

Pete C
Prostitution is still illigal and so men who get caught visiting these areas can be prosecuted and the prostitues themselves can be arrested for soliciciting. It makes the job much easier for the police. I wonder if they will be asked to turn a blind eye? If so then the number of curb crawlers coming to the city will rise dramatically if they know they won't be arrested.

damart
it will reduce crime, if prostitution is still an offence, which can't be a bad thing. Clients and prostitutes don't have to worry about being arrested now. If it's regulated, it can be controlled.

Karl Doering
Should be good.

maureen
it's the oldest trade, and all that. if there is a safe zone then it can be regulated.

Josh
I'm all for it. If it cleans up the rest of the city it would make sense. It's about time Liverpool moved into the 21st Century