The new left sounds a lot like the ol, rancid church-like conservativism
I guess he doesn’t read history books. Neither do his voters.
He’s desperate to get voters, and Spain still with a lot of unemployed people. The real issue
Looking forward to PP pushing for unregulated prostitution as a manifesto next election.
I hope that they follow the Swedish path were consuming the service is what breaks the law, not offering it. Otherwise it puts a heavier burden on prostitutes and makes their lives more difficult as makes it very difficult for them to denounce abuses or violence.
I reckon this is one of those things that sounds good to get voters on paper, but actually voters will secretly vote against this as a lot of people won’t admit to using prostitutes.
>Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution, i.e. expansion of the market, outweighs the substitution effect, where legal sex workers are favored over illegal workers. On average, countries with legalized prostitution report a greater incidence of human trafficking inflows.
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>Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization.
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>The type of legalization of prostitution does not matter — it only matters whether prostitution is legal or not. Whether third-party involvement (persons who facilitate the prostitution businesses, i.e, “pimps”) is allowed or not does not have an effect on human trafficking inflows into a country. Legalization of prostitution itself is more important in explaining human trafficking than the type of legalization.
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A step backwards
The new left sounds a lot like the ol, rancid church-like conservativism
I guess he doesn’t read history books. Neither do his voters.
He’s desperate to get voters, and Spain still with a lot of unemployed people. The real issue
Looking forward to PP pushing for unregulated prostitution as a manifesto next election.
I hope that they follow the Swedish path were consuming the service is what breaks the law, not offering it. Otherwise it puts a heavier burden on prostitutes and makes their lives more difficult as makes it very difficult for them to denounce abuses or violence.
I reckon this is one of those things that sounds good to get voters on paper, but actually voters will secretly vote against this as a lot of people won’t admit to using prostitutes.
Good.
[Hate to rain on everyone’s parade here, but legal prostitution increases trafficing no mater which way you slice it.](https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-prostitution-increase-human-trafficking/)
1.)
>Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution, i.e. expansion of the market, outweighs the substitution effect, where legal sex workers are favored over illegal workers. On average, countries with legalized prostitution report a greater incidence of human trafficking inflows.
2.)
>Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization.
3.)
>The type of legalization of prostitution does not matter — it only matters whether prostitution is legal or not. Whether third-party involvement (persons who facilitate the prostitution businesses, i.e, “pimps”) is allowed or not does not have an effect on human trafficking inflows into a country. Legalization of prostitution itself is more important in explaining human trafficking than the type of legalization.