Prostitution in Thailand

Thailand outlawed prostitution in 1960 but it still happens today. The Taiwanese government still holds prostitution to be illegal but regulates brothels. They have even implemented a 100% condom use initiative that keeps tabs on all the brothels making sure that every sexual encounter that could use a condom is done so with a condom. This is very contradicting in some ways because the Taiwanese government condemned brothels in the 60’s but is involved in them. However I am sure that the reason why the government has adopted this policy was to decrease the risk of transmission of HIV and other STI’s. This is a pretty big step in government public health because I think the Taiwanese government is the only government in the world that actually regulates safe sex in an environment such as that. This also brings up a big global health perspective because living in the US we are educated a lot on the risks of STIs but in other countries they do not see the risk of infection to be a significant one or the Taiwanese would not have to worry about implementing the 100% condom use policy. Even with that being said I still think that the state of Nevada should adopt the Taiwanese policy in order to promote safer sex.