ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the changing legal geography of sex services in Sydney since the introduction of significant new rights by the state government for public solicitation in 1979, and authorized sex service premises in 1995. It focuses on the shifting rights to the city and conceptions of offensiveness on which it was founded. The chapter also focuses on the spatial relationship that is articulated between sex services and the home between 1979 and 2010, with attentiveness to how this relationship is manifested, collapsed or maintained through a dynamic relationship. It analyses explores how, over a decade, the unconstrained right to solicit in all public spaces gradually gave way to a more complex legal geography of rights and offensiveness that was more local, proximate and familiar to the city. The chapter summarizes the various jurisdictional laws and legalities and techniques that govern commercial sex in Sydney have given rise to a rich interstitial form of legal pluralism.
