That's exactly what happened in Sweden. — Benkei
Violence against prostitutes hasn’t risen. No prostitutes were murdered in Sweden last year; in Germany, where prostitution is legal, 70 were killed by pimps or buyers.
Enforcement hasn’t increased policing costs, even though there is a prostitution unit as well as a trafficking unit staffed by 25 detectives and a social worker.
Prostitution hasn’t been eliminated, but surveys indicate that the percentage of Swedish men who buy sex dropped to 7.4 per cent in 2014 from 13.6 per cent in 1996; only 0.8 per cent said that they had bought sexual services within the last year. (In the United States, one in five men reports buying sex. There is no available Canadian data.)
One interesting aspect of the law is that fines are based on income. If the buyer is unemployed, the minimum fine is the equivalent of about $400. For everyone else, the maximum is 50 days’ worth of income.
Sex necessarily involves work from at least one participant.Is sex "work"?
Is sex "an industry"? — BC
Prostitution seems less alienating for both parties to me. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Instead of buying sex you buy a very expensive carrot. And the buyer of a very expensive carrot is given the option of sex for free. — Agree to Disagree
I'm not sure if that means sex is an institution or that sex can be viewed from the perspective of institutions.Well sexual relations are in demand and thus can act as a commodity. Trading in that commodity can thus constitute a business. Referring to the business as a whole would make it an industry. — LuckyR
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