 Where it once tolerated brothels it has become prohibitionist.The laws that once referred to street based sex work as "scandalous" and an "offense to modesty" now speak of assisting sex workers.The owners of regulated brothels who once assaulted independent sex workers in the streets, or paid the police to do the same, now operate illegally in private apartments, driven underground by the prohibitionist movement that currently opposes AMMAR in the media and the legislatures.