A recent thread on Reddit called our attention to a bill passed recently by Governor Gavin Newsom that decriminalizes loitering in a public place with the intent to practice sex work in California.
A Koreatown-based user named AutomaticXChaos writes to Reddit under the R/LosAngeles tag that they’ve noticed a sudden appearance of more of sex workers appearing and hanging out openly in their neighborhood, “working the streets in broad daylight,” as early as 8am and “clad in thigh high boots, fur coats, and neon green bikinis.”
The writer wonders how this is possible out in the open in such a “heavily populated and policed area.”
Respondents add that they’ve noticed a similar increase in the number of sex workers in the area, as well as used condoms on the street, while another chimes in seen that they’ve seen a similar surge in sex workers hanging out more openly in Buena Park, as well as more familiar avenues of L.A. sex work.