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Le Pen Proposes Bill to Reopen Cooperative Brothels
12/9/2025
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- Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party plans to submit a bill to reopen brothels run as cooperatives by prostitutes.
- Lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy said the proposal seeks to empower prostitutes, who would be "empresses in their kingdom."
- France banned brothels in 1946, though prostitution remains legal.
- A 2016 law fines clients, fueling renewed debate on prostitution legalization in France and other EU countries.
- Le Monde first reported the proposal.
