If you made a place with rooms instead, of course the customers would go there.”People in Copenhagen have learned not to underestimate Lodberg Olsen. “A lot of people say there’s a lot of violence on the street against sex workers, but very, very few do anything about it.”While Denmark legalised buying and selling sex in 1999, it is still illegal to profit from other people selling sex, making it difficult for sex workers to rent premises, or employ drivers or security. The purpose is harm reduction and to provide information.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Susanne Møller and Michael Lodberg Olsen outside the Sexelancen on Istedgade in Copenhagen. “We are not running a brothel, it’s for street workers,” Lodberg Olsen says. “The key for us is to listen as much as possible to the sex workers’ needs.”Soon he hopes to have a generator and a small heater.

Source: The Guardian November 27, 2016 00:04 UTC