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Legalising prostitution : a lesser evil ? | 14 comments (14 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
What's your source... (none / 0)
...on the Dutch soar in under-age prostitution? Although the general consensus is that there is most likely an increase, reported by ECPAT, the conclusion was that exact numbers are incredibly hard to give, exactly because there is an increase of under-age prostitution now driven into clandestine working condition. (Report, not linked, is in Dutch.)

But is legalising prostitution the root cause of this? That's debatable. For example, the opening of the borders of East Europe also led to a surge of young people which were/are exploited in illegal sex-industry.

Legalising the prostitution is, so far, considered a relative success, even by the current, more conservative Balkenende government. In the zones where prostitution is allowed the law is relatively well abided: prostitutes are legal (aliens) and not under-age. They have also founded their own union to stand up for their rights.

Customers were and are not penalised, exactly to motivate them to report under-age prostitution when they see it. Whether that concept works, I don't know...

Anyway. What I find interesting is that more and more countries are experimenting with the concept of legal prostitution. So far, there wasn't much "competition" in finding the best policy; in the beginning, there was only the Dutch model. Which doesn't mean it needs to be the best model to become implemented.

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Wed Nov 30th, 2005 at 06:17:05 AM EST
Re: What's your source... (none / 0)
this was quoted (verbally) during one of the sessions of the Canadian parliamentary sub-committee. Guess they should at least try and get their figures right, but apparently they are way off the mark ! As there is a strong opposition to a full legalisation, my assumption is that they just tried either to forge figures or picked some figures without the appropriate accuracy check.
That's why ET is useful : get the info right at the source. Thank you for your comment.

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by Agnes a Paris on Wed Nov 30th, 2005 at 06:34:16 AM EST
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Legalising prostitution : a lesser evil ? | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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