Why do so many men still think the sex trade is fine?
Saturday, January 19th, 2008The trial of Steve Wright confirms how dangerous prostitution is but legalising it would do nothing to aid the plight of women involved
Following the example of Lord Longford, who established that, where sex is concerned, adjustments to British legislation should always be preceded by an inspection of foreign arrangements, Home Office minister Vernon Coaker toured various Stockholm addresses, investigating the impact of Sweden’s decision to criminalise men who pay for sex. Whether it was a question of thrift, or a natural reluctance on Mr Coaker’s part to re-enact highlights from Lord Longford’s Scandinavian excursion, the Swedish researches were completed in a day, which must barely have left time for the minister and his team, including Vera Baird and Barbara Follett, to ‘cooee’ up a few brothel stairs and reach the conclusion that, although some Swedish people think the scheme has worked, other Swedish people think not.
The next stop on the comparative prostitution tour will, I understand, be the Netherlands, where some people think it’s enlightened to have women eye-catchingly displayed as wares in shop windows, but other people don’t. After that, the itinerary is unclear, though it seems unlikely the ministers will get as far as New Zealand: a pity since the islands are currently advertised by pro-legalisers as sex-trade heaven, even better than Amsterdam, where accredited sex operatives now take genuine pride in their work and clients, too, are an example to all, their connoisseurship finally liberated from those doubts which, to judge by the statistics, still deter a number of British men from trying the wide range of reasonably priced goods on offer.
So long as stocks last. Coaker is on the case, Harriet Harman wants to penalise ‘the demand side’ and Denis MacShane has tabled a suitable amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, with the result that websites usually preoccupied with punters’ boasts and hints, are now home to agonised speculation about the effects of this triple attack. Would respectable brothels be affected by criminalisation? they wonder. Lap dancing? Strippers? Even their little bit of porn?
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In Norway are invented a miracle of a shoe for prostitutes. The fashionable new thing is equipped with powerful system of protection. In them there is a button of alarm, the space for storage of money, the keys, necessary medicines and condoms is stipulated. The small videocamera sideways fixes a site of the sex - working woman, she will be easy for finding, using the same system of navigation with what all European taxi are equipped.On build-screen that placed at heel, prostitutes can see information about clients.
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