Posted on 07/05/2008 4:16:35 PM PDT by Stoat
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The approach, championed by women ministers such as Harriet Harman, has met with fierce resistance from the Home Office. While Diane Abbot has tabled an Early Day Motion, to date it has only 23 signatories. The question is would such a system work here? At face value, the Swedes have got it right. As Kajsa Wahlberg, head of the human trafficking unit of the Swedish police, says: ''We no longer have a problem with prostitutes. We have a prob-lem with men who buy sex.''
Before the 1999 law was introduced some 2,500 vice girls prowled the streets of Stockholm or worked in brothels. Today there are around 150. The number of punters picked up has fallen 80 per cent. In the nine years since the legislation changed, 1,650 men have been charged with paying for sex. None were jailed, but all faced hefty fines and huge humiliation. Several lost their jobs.
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I understand the whole shaming the "John" aspect of this but what kind of rational being makes a service legal and then makes the customer's actions illegal? Methinks the liberals are really losing it these days.
Right.. It’s either illegal or its not. Plus, there are a lot more johns than there are prostitutes, so if you are going to use the gov’t to stop prostitution, you will get much better results focusing on the prostitutes since there are fewer of them and they are easy to find.
That being said, I don’t think it should be illegal at all.
LOL! During my term as chairman of an international committee, I was asked one day by one of my Asian colleagues about this business of being a "chair." Why was it I was being designated as a piece of furniture?
Indeed. This FR thread from 2006 may also be of interest.
Great Britain Mini-brothels get go-ahead to operate on your doorstep
I understand the whole shaming the “John” aspect of this but what kind of rational being makes a service legal and then makes the customer’s actions illegal? Methinks the liberals are really losing it these days.
smoking is legal except just about everywhere it is illegal to smoke.
Watch the movie Soylent Green and you’ll understand.
U.K. Riot police storm pub after a smoker lights up in protest to the ban
So Mr Vaughan lit up a cigarette in protest. When he refused to extinguish it, staff pressed a panic button behind the bar.
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Staff told me I couldn't smoke, but I said I'd had enough of being pushed around by the Government.
The government doesn’t want to stop it, they want to tax it (through fines assessed as punishment after the men are arrested).
And it will be very easy to pass more laws to jack the fines way up to increase revenue. Who is going to care that the customers of prostitutes are getting gouged by the State? Same deal as smokers - the State is just expanding that same philosophy into another sector of the legal economy.
Of course,on the basis of "PC thought" it makes perfect sense because,as *everyone* knows....men are evil and women are victims.
Exactly. Always follow the PC.
Not that I think this is a bad idea, but I wonder if the same logic is applied to drugs, treatment for the dealers and prison for the users?
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