San Francisco vote a step towards legalising prostitution

WITH the outcome of the US presidential election seemingly a ‘walk in the park’ for Barack Obama last night, whether to let prostitutes walk their streets was proving a more thorny issue for San Franciscan voters.

Renowned for its liberal attitude, San Francisco would become the first US city to decriminalise street prostitutes if the vote goes in favour of the sex workers.

The measure on which the city’s inhabitants are voting, Proposition K, would forbid local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex.