Paying for sex with prostitutes who are controlled by pimps is set to become a criminal offence, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is expected to announce.
She will also say that people who knowingly pay illegally trafficked women for sex could face rape charges.
SourceI've only just picked up on this (although I did hear a rather one-sided 'debate' on the wireless yesterday)...
What on
Earth are they thinking?
They are
never going to stop prostitution, it is as we all know the worlds's oldest profession. Making the laws that govern it even more complex and absurd than they are today will only make things worse.
It won't ever go away, you can't un-invent it any more than you can un-invent nuclear weapons or drugs.
The
only sensible solution for controlling it, ensuring the health of the workers and customers
and at the same time remove the trafficking problem is to legalise it.