To be upset a brothel has opened next door to my child's school

No, because all of those things are inherently harmful and dangerous.

Sex between consenting adults is not harmful or dangerous.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jess-phillips-russell-home-office-mps-men-b1219328.html

This is a timely report. 'Men have been urged to “stop using prostitutes” by a Labour MP, as she raised concerns for women who are being “systematically raped”. Sarah Russell said a “significant” number of women are brought to the UK under false pretences before being forced to work in the sex industry.'

All the apologists for prostitution on this thread should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

Do you think people should be able to sell their kidneys? Cut off a limb to get into the Parolympics? Sell their babies? We do put limits on what people can do.

Well in a vacuum I imagine most people would choose not to work at all, but that isn’t the world we live in.

In a liberal society, it should be for women to decide what choices they make.

Choices aren’t made in a vacuum. Choices that are made entirely freely aren’t choices at all.

Stop calling it work, as though it’s on a par with being a lawyer, or a hairdresser or a plumber. It isn’t. It’s prostitution. Exploitation. Abuse.

How do you think a health and safety review, risk assessment, equality impact assessment, etc, occur in this line of “work”?

Your apologism is grotesque.

Why should it be for the state to tell women who they can and can’t have sex with? Are women so unable to make their own decisions?

In my view, if women want to carry out this type of work, that should be up to them. It should be tightly regulated to ensure it takes place safely.

Why do you imagine that men who are going to visit adult women for sex are going to be interested in the kids at your child's special needs school? They're no more likely to be paedophiles than any other man. Setting aside the rights/wrongs of sex work in general, the only sexual interest these men are demonstrating is in sex with adult women. They're no more likely to be a danger to a child than any other man who has sex with women.

This is actually not true as child sex offenders frequently use prostitutes. There is a plethora of research on this. I personally wouldn’t want a brothel anywhere near a school.

OP please ring police and report and contact your local councillor if you have had no joy with the council.

as others have said, often modern slavery is hidden behind “massage parlours”

Some of these posters should read the feminism boards to educate themselves about prostitution and why as a society we should not be accepting of it.

Why do you imagine that men who are going to visit adult women for sex are going to be interested in the kids at your child's special needs school? They're no more likely to be paedophiles than any other man. Setting aside the rights/wrongs of sex work in general, the only sexual interest these men are demonstrating is in sex with adult women. They're no more likely to be a danger to a child than any other man who has sex with women.

It's prostitution, Christina, not 'sex work.' Every time it occurs, it damages women and girls in the wider society as well as the prostituted woman.

There are men who have visited sex workers who are “nice normal guys who just want to have sex” too. I have known (and dated) more than a few.

Why do you imagine that men who are going to visit adult women for sex are going to be interested in the kids at your child's special needs school? They're no more likely to be paedophiles than any other man. Setting aside the rights/wrongs of sex work in general, the only sexual interest these men are demonstrating is in sex with adult women. They're no more likely to be a danger to a child than any other man who has sex with women.

What is the problem, are they having sex in full view of the street ? The children won't take any notice or even know what is going on inside. They will only know if their Mothers are having outraged conversations within their earshot.
I lived in a town on mainland Europe where there was a "club" with a stripper sign outside right next to the Church, nobody bothered.

I am concluding the OP has made this up too

I mean why would anybody open a brothel next to a school. I don’t think this happens IRL

I really think Mumsnet needs an option to vote “this post is BS” along with another that says “no I am not helping you write an article / TV script / do your sociology homework”

Why do you imagine that men who are going to visit adult women for sex are going to be interested in the kids at your child's special needs school? They're no more likely to be paedophiles than any other man. Setting aside the rights/wrongs of sex work in general, the only sexual interest these men are demonstrating is in sex with adult women. They're no more likely to be a danger to a child than any other man who has sex with women.

I was happy to go along with it for the sake of discussion if such a scenario were real.

Since you mention it, it does seem like an odd choice for someone to decide next to a school would be a good choice for a brothel. Surely they must have known people would quickly find out what it was and the parents of the school students would lose their minds over it and make reports to the council and police?