Mothers and children go shopping for swimsuits in a store across the street from a brothel. Brothels are located on residential streets and vibrant shopping districts. Children walk past brothels on their way to school.

Brothel owners are featured in mainstream newspapers as business entrepreneurs. Brothels are listed on the national stock exchange, their shares traded on the secondary market. Flush with cash and legitimacy, sex entrepreneurs lobby politicians, judges, prosecutors and the police for more favorable laws and enforcement policies.

The sex industry has growing influence over the media, shaping society's - especially young people's - ideas about the acceptable norms and desirable goals of sexual behavior. Men accept that buying women for sex is an ordinary consumer choice and frequently and openly visit brothels.

This is a picture of Victoria, Australia today where brothel prostitution has been legal since 1984. Victoria is now a society in which prostitution is accepted and has become an integral part of the fabric of the community. Full Story...