Published: 23 Jul 10 13:36 CET | Print version
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A new review of Sweden's ban on buying sex has provided little hard evidence that the policy of prohibition has worked, writes Laura Agustín, but few politicians have dared to point out its obvious failings.
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Meanwhile trafficking goes on in Sweden, and there is no meaningful attempt to stop it, by legislation or policework, for fear of exposing the deficiencies with sexköpslagen.
Anyone else who supports or tolerates the current legislation, should be ashamed of themselves. Young girls are going through hell and you are letting it happen. Wake up and speak up you cowards.
Coming from a country that has legalised prostitution I really find it hard to believe why there is such is a fuss about making it legal. Well framed laws and policing help keep out the illegal activities and proved a safer working environment for the workers & clients. Of course each country & society need to find the model that best suits them.
Unfortunately the debate of legalising prostitution gets hijacked by everyone and leaves those working in the area worse of. In reality prostitution will always exist, legal or illegal. The illegal model always makes it worse for everyone and society.
Make it legal for both men and women,
punish the pimps (make it illegal) as they are the ones who actually make the "workers" lives miserable and exploit the workers the most.
And finally:
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Shove a grapefruit in the mouths of those stupid vocal feminists or give them a couple of bananas and tell them to STFU.
Can hardly miss them at the airport! Good wordwide advertisement on Swedish policy!
If you need an argument for keeping the ban read
http://politisktinkorrekt.info/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=76
Of course the ban doesn't work....prostitution is rampant in Sweden. The only reason they have this law is because without it, it would be so obvious to everyone.
Everyone in Sweden is a kept taxation slave and some are getting desperate to earn money anyway they can. That is why it is now so common.
Any questions?
Every "NEEDY" is a potential criminal.
Remove the "NEED"? :-O D:
Legalize it!
That way you could have "state sanctioned" houses with staff and inspectors and do away with the pimps and traffickers that cause all the problems!
And, ...TAX it! Look at the tens or hundreds of millions that could be made to make life better for everyone! They could start retiremen/investmentt accounts for all the employees, prostitutes, staff, inspectors.
You're talking about a tremendous amount of money!
*How much money is the state making from prostitution now?* Nothing!
If it's managed the right way it can be good for all. No matter what it will go on anyway, why not make it a *positive* thing for all of society?
Tak
Then make pimping illegal.
In Australia prostitution is legal.Brothels must only be in council approved zones.Local residents can object but not veto.
I remind people of the effect of criminalising alcohol in the Usa and even Australia in the 1920's. All it produced was empowerment of criminals-making them wealthy and powerful/violent and corrupting some police.Now alcohol is regulated taxed hours of sales controlled ,licences required and selling alcohol to drunk people or underage is illegal.Public education then helps people to seek help for alcohol addiction.Due to deaths there are severe penalties for drink driving.
It is now the turn of other drugs to be criminalised.And we see the same problems
The sex industry relies on the fact that men have a natural desire for sex beyond what they have in formal relationships (including being single ,incapacitated or otherwise unattractive to women).Many customers are simply ordinary married men.
Under the old laws in Australia when sex was criminalised
police used to raid brothels, fine women and brothel owners
or even become brothel protectors for a price.
The rights of such women were few and were an underclass subject to violence and mistreatment by the pimps and any maladjusted man.
Now these women have the same rights as any citizen ,use safe sex practices ,often finance their education by this means and are not doing it for some drug addiction or to pay back onerous loans (unlike other countries such as Thailand).
The embarrassing issue polarises religious groups.Often legislation is face saving by politicians.End result the "laws" are honoured in the breach but look good politically.What a waste of time ,police work and courts.
Sex trafficking will always occur -it just goes underground
the illegality tends simply to force up the price.Legal and Police action here would do the most good.These women are subjugated promised high incomes only to find they are deceived in their new country and because of the illegality have no legal recourse even if they did know their rights.
The odd hatred of pimps? What is meant by a pimp?
The term seems to cover a wide spectrum and really has nothing to do with what sex workers refer to as managers or those they employ to represent them just as many self employed people employ a third party to do work they do not want to/ are unable to do.
This systematic hatred of men as clients is also weird. Denying women the right to consent while demonising men as abusers is a weird notion of gender equality. It is a notion that somehow ignores women who buy sex and men who sell sex to both women and men.
I think the Swedish law has little to to do with equality or protecting women but rather conforming ignorance and prejudice within the justice system.