First of all, we might think that the fact that street prostitution stopped existing due to the new legislation in some countries, the threats to sex workers also diminished, but this is not the case. While sex workers used to work on the street under the supervision and paid protection of a pimp, and the sex workers of a brothel also enjoyed protection provided by the security personnel employed by the institution, sex workers operating at home or in their own tenement are increasingly exposed to the risk of violent acts, which is also due to pimpery having become illegal. There have been plenty of violent offenses against independent escorts, who might have been be glad anyway that they did not have a pimp over them to skim their profit, but they had to face the fact that they were weak women and for whom they provided sex were often strong and aggressive men who did what they wanted before, during and after the paid sex act. This is further exacerbated by the fact that escorts do not dare to turn to the police in case of any atrocity because they would just call the attention of the authorities, which would greatly harm the sex business and therefore they rather endure the possible atrocities concomitant with the sex work such as verbal and physical aggression, theft, unpaid leave and forced sexual act (e.g. forced anal penetration, unprotected sexual service, swallowing seminal liquid etc.)
To avoid these threats, it is often seen that some escorts join with one another and work together in a tenement in order to have greater security, which is, in principle, workable, although female sex workers who work in a small place can easily have confrontations and the resulting atrocities (brawl, theft, police report etc.) with each other. However, by keeping certain security principles, a significant part of the threats can be eliminated, for instance, refusing to receive drugged or drunken guest, installing an entry phone with video camera that can provide a lot of information about the arriving sex client, keeping cash in the bank not at home etc.
Another consequence of criminalizing the purchase of sexual services is that sexual service providers are more likely to change location and become temporary residents in order to avoid the suspicion of neighbours, thus causing unpleasant public awareness of the authorities. This is why a special term, the touring escort term came to existence, which means a travelling escort prostitute, who often changes her localization to work in major and rich cities in Europe, mainly to avoid to draw the attention of authorities, although there are other reasons why an escort prostitute change the scene of her sex business so often.