Anti-prostitution legislation.

[Peter]

andy at handiwork wrote:

> Though I am the first to doubt the accuracy of opinion polls,
> it would seem that the proposers of this legislation take some
> comfort from recent polls that suggest it would not be a vote
> loser.
>
> None of this answers my initial point about how it might affect
> the porn industry.

That was because the poll was 'rigged' by tying in people trafficking.

"The The Ipsos-Mori poll, conducted in July and August, showed that more than half of men and women (58%) support making it illegal to pay for sex if it will help reduce the numbers of women and children being trafficked into the UK for sexual exploitation."

A straight forward "should paying/selling sex be legal/ilegal" showed a 50/50 ish split.

[andy at handiwork]

Indeed, polls are often rigged, or at least unreliable, as I alluded to in my original posting. However people tend to look at the headline which in that case was 'Public support a ban on the buying of sex'. From that Harman etc. will take consolation.

Generally one needs to look at the sponser of the poll to get an insight to the bias.

[planeterotica]

spider wrote:

> The way things are going this Labour Government isn't ging to
> be around long enough to bring in this legislation.


planeterotica wrote:

This goverment know they are in for a hammering at the next election therefore they dont care wether their policies are popular or otherwise, so you can expect to see them pushing ahead with some unpopular bills before the next election even ID cards isnt quite dead in the water yet !sad!

[spider]

Perhaps you're right.

At least whilst the papers are full of stuff about Anti Prostitution Laws and ID Card legislation they won't be talking about the economy.

Perhaps that's Gordon's strategy.

[c.j.jaxxon]

As a person over here on the other side of the pond I wouldn't worry about any legislation on prostitution anywhere seeing that when you go all around the internet you can see girls of all kinds doing porn and I don't see it going nowhere. The worse they did here in Chicago is if you get caught picking up a prostitute is they'll take you car and impound it and put your profile up on the the police blotter database with your photo for all the world to see which of course would embarass you and you'd have to pay $500 to get you car out.

[mynah]

What ever they think is right or wrong any government or even individual MP is surely not so daft as to think they can stop prostitution, the worlds oldest industry, but know that more laws will simply drive it further underground.

As to the voting public I doubt many would consider any changes either way when deciding who to vote for.

If the government allowed operation as a proper legal business a group of girls could work safely together rather than the current silly and potentially dangerous situation where only a single girl can work legally, and generally in a residential rather than a business area.
The girls, maid and premises manager could properly declare themselves as employed or self-employed and pay tax to the benefit of the government instead fearing being charged for living from immoral earnings.
Also, within legalisation, they could openly advertise so discouraging the remaining on-street soliciting.

Like any business all would have to be legally entitled to work hence there would be no opportunity for anyone trying to traffic and exploit illegal immigrants.
Premises could checked with full co-operation of all operating correctly since they have nothing to hide.
Also it would be in the interests of all operating correctly to report any illegal operation since they would be removing their competitors.