5
Mar
2014
By Calvin at 10:40 GMT, 12 years ago
This interesting piece by Nigel Morris appeared in the on-line Independent on 3rd March
A year-long parliamentary inquiry has concluded that laws criminalising women working as prostitutes should be scrapped and replaced with tough new penalties targeting customers and pimps who fuel the multibillion-pound sex trade.
In their report MPs and peers of all parties urge Britain to follow Scandinavian countries by aiming the full force of the law against punters, rather than women who might have been coerced into selling their bodies. The starting-point for legislation should be the premise that prostitution amounts to violence against women and is an affront to sexual equality.
Read the rest in The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-call-for-prostitution-to-be-legalised-but-demand-tough-new-penalties-on-pimps-9164069.html
