Belgium 🇧🇪

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Belgium has completely revolutionized global sex work legislation. Following centuries of municipal control—ranging from medieval public executioners managing the trade to 19th-century French registry systems—the country spent decades under an abolitionist model targeting third parties. In a historic dual framework across 2022 and 2024, Belgium became the first nation globally to structurally fully decriminalize sex work and formally grant sex workers equal access to maternity leave, pensions, and unemployment contract benefits.