Government prostitution inquiry imminent: deadline 18th Feb

[Nova70]

Both soliciting & kerb crawling are illegal so not relevant to the issue, so as you say, it is totally misleading. Nothing new there if you are trying to confuse what other think to get your objective across.

One of the issues being considered is "Whether criminal sanction in relation to prostitution should continue to fall more heavily on those who sell sex, rather than those who buy it."

As it is not illegal to sell sex then how is that relevant? There are some draconian laws that can be used to prosecute those who profit from prostitution, one of the reasons that you are not allowed to take money through the AW system. Although, I believe, it is not now illegal for a husband to live off his wife if she is a prostitute.

Why should a landlord of a property be prosecuted for, knowingly, allowing a prostitute to run a legal business from his property?

How can prostitution possibly be seen "as violence against women" if I am a consenting adult, acting out of personal choice and do not feel violated.

Trafficking: this is an issue we all agree on, a girl working for the benefit of others against her will, but how much of it actually goes on?

Trafficking can have two meanings:

1. A person can be considered to be trafficked if she is used for sexual exploitation against her will

2. A person can also be considered to be trafficked if she works for an organised business willingly and is moved around the country to work.

There are also other ways that females can be sexually exploited, these include being coerced to work as a prostitute by a lover / partner, although they are doing it willingly, it is still under duress if she is not happy about doing it.

The law really has no right to interfere with what consenting adults get up to in private.

Sarah x x x

An excellent post Sarah. How can it be viewed as violence against women ?, in the same way they view you being a prostitute in the first place, your a victim but you just don't realise it .......... do you feel patronised ?.

Trafficking should be dealt with as a separate issue because it's not only the sex industry that makes use of the trade in human beings.

As I've said it won't stop me doing it but I will be more cautious, for instance there are some well known apartment blocks in London where many of the residents are wgs and many of the visitors punters and these places could make tempting targets for publicity stunt Police raids to demonstrate the Law being enforced so it may be best to avoid places like that.

I'm curious as to how it may effect online advertising and forums, does AW still operate in the Countries who have already introduced such Laws, if I was unlucky enough to be arrested would the Police seize my phone and computer and could the things I've written on forums be used as evidence against me. This forum was created to support a commercial venture but they allow us to discuss wider issues ........ thank you, but I can't see that continuing if the Law is changed as we'd then be talking about an illegal activity and it would be perfectly understandable if we were no longer welcome.