Comparative Summary of Evaluation Reports on France’s 2016 Prostitution Act

Néo Gaudy (1) , Hélène Le Bail (2)

1 Sciences Po - Sciences Po
2 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

This paper is a comparative summary of the three evaluation reports available to date7 on the new Prostitution Act. It briefly presents the main points of the Act—client criminalization, sup-port for exiting prostitution, combating sexual exploitation, and preventive measures for mi-nors—then compares the main elements of the three reports’ assessments and highlights con-vergences and divergences. The conclusion of this paper highlights the reports’ diametrically opposite explanations for the Act’s failure to “combat the prostitution system.

Mots clés: France; sex worker; 2016 Prostitution Act; France

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Sociologie; Science politique

Néo Gaudy, Hélène Le Bail. Comparative Summary of Evaluation Reports on France’s 2016 Prostitution Act. 2021. ⟨hal-03871960⟩