Auckland City Council - City Scene
Council's working group on prostitution is making progress on its review of Auckland's sex businesses. Its City Advocacy
Committee has voted to support ongoing consultation and a review into the legal, regulatory and planning implications of
the industry.
Committee chairperson, Councillor Richard Northey says the group is in consultation with representatives of the Police,
Prostitutes Collective, Aids Foundation, Sexual Health Clinic, strip clubs and massage parlour operators. It will meet
again soon to consider more specific approaches.
"The consultations have taken the approach that it is better to work towards a fair regulatory system for the whole sex
industry rather than just to concentrate on massage parlours," Councillor Northey says.
The Committee will also consider seeking amendments to the Massage Parlours Act 1978 in response to concerns about the
activities of unlicensed massage parlours and other sex industry activities, including those where women from overseas
are working illegally.