“Norwegian politicians appear poised, when the next parliamentary session opens, to make the purchase of sexual services illegal in Norway.”
- Here in Sweden (neighbor country of Norway), we’ve had the same kind of problems with prostitution and drug dealing going on in public. By now, they seem to have disappeared.
For long, prostitution and the use of narcotics wasn’t prohibited in Sweden (although selling narcotics and all sorts of procuring was).
Today, the use of narcotics (except in areas of medicine) is prohibited and the - mere - purchasing of ‘sexual services’ has been banned (because it’s more PC to hunt down the men, of course).
This strategy could’ve worked just fine. That is, if undercover law enforcement operations weren’t ILLEGAL in Sweden which they are, for some reason.
The result:
The underground market is flourishing, national currency is flowing out of the country in an uncontrolled manner and lives are destroyed.
What rationale brought about such a law in the first place? Do you know?