Running a brothel is illegal, as is dealing in drugs or guns, and the confiscation of the proceeds of crime is logical otherwise it encourages crime on the basis that it does pay, you wouldn't want a drug dealer to keep his profits and just get a slap on the wrist for his crimes surely?
There's no legal way to earn loads of money from flogging drugs (well not unless you are Pfizer flogging Viagra) - so drug dealers and real pimps deserve to get their assets seized.
But selling sex isn't illegal, and I don't begrudge girls earning cash if they do a good job - it takes a lot of blowjobs to raise £1,000! But if you read this interesting story - which again the mainstream media overlooked in their salacious hysterical coverage of prostituion - it seems some Old Bill is just hitting a soft target that won't fight back.
An Indie earns £10k perfectly legitimately but if she does a couple of duos or let's a girl share her flat for a week or two she risks losing everything not just the few hundred quid she might have technically earned from 'brothel keeping'.
Just shows that some forces - and the anti politicians - who talk about getting vulnerable women out if prostitution are talking bullshit. Read the piece in the article about the girl who was off the game for ten years but they still seized her house - it forces women back to keep working more to make up the cash they've lost.
Hypocrisy? What a surprise - instead of trying to criminalise punters they should really make it safer for girls by decriminalising all aspects of the job by letting them work two in a flat - you could still crack down on the pimps and exploiters.