"Ask the 'working girls' themselves"
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith is setting out her plans to reform the laws on prostitution. Paying for sex is likely to become a crime if the sex-worker is "controlled for another person's gain". When the proposals were first mooted we received this.
Someone should ask the 'working girls' themselves
When Harriet Harman blogged the issue it attracted a number of interesting comments, like this:
I've been working in the sex business for a long time now and like many, many of my colleages I have never taken drugs nor was I destitute. I am not a victim nor are my clients criminals. I, like thousands of others in the UK, do it out of choice.
Do you have some experience of prostitution, whether as a worker, client, member of a related profession or as a resident living in "red light" area? Share your personal experience or perspective by getting in touch, via the blog, or via email.
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What is it about this government that gives them the right to be pious and righteous in the opinions and plethora of new laws that come out every few weeks.
My opinion on this latest new piece of legislation is one of an outsider, who has never used the services of a prostitute in order to have sex. But one of a realist - Sex and prostitution has been around since God was a little boy , and maybe even longer.
Now, if the government want to stop PROSTITUTION - let them make it illegal and against the law.
But if this new law is in some way aimed at the use of sex slaves and their import into the country illegally, - they should also say so.
This new law just shows the present government's inability to police and stop this trade into our country - our borders are no longer secure and our government tries to stick its finger in the dyke to stop the leak by this lastest piece of legisislation.
In as far as the question of allowing prostitution in this country. - I personally feel that PROSTITUTION should be legalized and run in a safe, secure enviroment, within its own set of laws.
One last thought, in the last ten or fifteen years this and the previous government have tried to control, influence and lead this population to its' own fatuous ideals of a 'ultra liberal state.'
Isn't it about time we said 'Enough is enough'.
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