May be wrong but soliciting for sex is illegal and imho should be decriminalised and regulated for the better protection of the people involved in it, see Australia for example

would have thought legalising it would be the answer

then there could be regulation

I don’t think it is possible to make prostitution illegal. How?
Keeping it legal provides the safest way of controlling the sex slave industry, but they need to tighten up on this.
More help and advice for girls who like this work is what is needed, as many tend to rely on those who control them.

And for those of you reading this saying that prostitution is illegal you are wrong it never has been. It is illegal to solicit for sex and various other things connected with it are illegal.

def yes, men have always exploited women and it should stop, they might learn to respect us more.

Speaking from the experience in America, absolutely nothing stops prostitution. It’s illegal almost everywhere here except Nevada and it makes no difference. I don’t know how big the sex slave industry is, but the fact is, as long as men are looking for it, someone who wants or needs the money bad enough will be there to supply. The police have too much violent crime to chase down to spend as much time as necessary to keep prostitution in check here. My theory is that if you prosecuted the purchasers in addition to the providers, you’d see a lot less in the way of any kind of sex crimes.

Prostitution is illegal, but in my opinion it shouldn’t be.

There is clearly a market for it, so there should be legalised brothels that can be controlled by local authorities.

No one should be force to sell sex, but those who choose to should be allowed.

If some societal practice is illegal, it is not regulated or controlled. Making prostitution illegal would only support the sex slave industry.

The oldest profession? There’s a few million neolithic hunter-gatherers would like a word.

Where a commodity is in demand, but restricted by law, that is the green light for organised crime to make millions. Whether it’s drink, drugs, sex, whatever - if the public want it, and the government say they can’t have it, the criminals will supply it.

The pragmatic postion would be to legalise, regulate and control the industry. If you make it legal, you can put the criminals out of business, protect those selling the commodity and ensure a safe supply of the commodity to the consumer.

If that is not acceptable for the sex industry, perhaps applying laws which already exist more rigorously would be the answer. It is already illegal to supply drugs to people, to force them to take illegal drugs, to imprison them unlawfully, to assault them, to live off the earnings of prostitution. The explotative elements of prostitution are already illegal.

Many of the women involved are in the country illegally and fear for what might happen to them if they come to the attention of the authorities - perhaps a more humane approach to their asylum / immigration status might enable them to come forward safely?

While I would not want to suggest that “KEYPOINT” is a user of prostitutes, his quote:

“I think prostitution means sexual and economic freedom for all those who take part in it by choice - which is the majority of sex workers.”

is complete and utter rubbish, and the sort of nonsense that men who use these women come out with to salve their own consciences.

The vast, vast majority of women in prostitution are prisoners - prisoners in fact, prisoners of poverty, prisoners of drugs, prisoners of abuse. Perhaps men who use prostitution could be shown the conditions leading to their ‘hosts’ situation and shown how little of the money they pay, if any, goes to the women.

Perhaps a couple of well-publicised trials where customers of imprisoned girls stood trial for rape - after all, do the girls actually consent to sex? If the answer’s no, how isn’t it a rape?

I think KEYPOINT is over-estimating the extent of the “escort / callgirl” side of the sex industry - men paying serious money for companionship and sex, where the women have more control; and underestimating the extent of the “street whore” side of the industry where for the price of a few pints, the back of a car or a back room in a massage parlour is the setting. It is the latter case where the desparate women are truly prisoners. Most are so broken that they don’t regard themselves as anything, let alone victims - which means KEYPOINT has no need to worry about them.

Hello,

(ANS) This is a massively contentious subject area, should prostitution be legal or illegal? Because its a morally (ethically) difficult issue there are many wide ranging opinions.

**I am definitely and totally against ANYONE being forced against their will, or coerced, or tricked into sexual slavery. I am against people from any country being trafficked or treated as goods or a commodity in order to make money from them.

**On the other hand I don’t think the problems associated with prostitution can be or will be solved by making sex in exchange for money illegal.

**May be one of the very few solutions is to make legalized red light districts, in large towns & cities located away from residential areas, a place where sex for money can be conducted legally (or with the authorities turning a blind eye) AND where the sex workers can be licensed and have to prove where they came from and as condition of working be made to have regular health check up’s etc.

**I think banning prostitution will almost certainly make the whole sex industry a far more dangerous and send both workers & punters underground. I think it would make it far more difficult to control too.

**I’ve seen several TV documentaries about Polish & Latvian girls kidnapped into the sex trade but eventually rescued. ALL of the stories were dreadfully shocking, upsetting, very disturbing & heart braking. You wouldn’t wish this kind of treatment on an animal let alone a young girl or woman. YES! some attempts must be made to stop the trade in young women & girls from other countries into the sex trade.

Ivan