Seen it from a number of angles and sad to say there is no 'right way' to do it.
i agree this is very much a double edged sword.....
There are a number of wrong ways and stamping down on the girls is (fortunately) now being recognised as one of them. This is very much a supply and demand where the supply is virtually unlimited so you need to regulate the demand.
again the risk with hammering the girls is they are driven more and more underground, this means that just keeping a basic eye on things becomes more difficult and, heaven forbid, if we had a repeat of the ripper or that chap in Ipswich it becomes even more difficult to track because the girls are trying to keep out of the way of the law
The most effective I have seen was a 'tolerated in a controlled way' as it allowed the health and disease side to be monitored making the freelancers a much less desirable route and when run in conjunction with hammering kerb-crawlers it is very effective. This route allows you to keep the trade away from residential areas in the main.
The other advantage is that if it is allowed then it can be taxed!!
yes, having a 'tolerance area' will assist in the control of disease and makes dealing with abuse issues far easier, the issue then lies with 'where do you put these areas?'
i believe some years ago there were trials of tolerance areas in parts of northern england and scotland, the girls were encouraged to use industrial areas in order to maintain a human presence and so hopefully drive down crime, but the lorry drivers who used these areas for breaks and the local residents were up in arms as what was a quiet area on an evening had turned into a constantly busy part of town, there was also the issue of used condoms and needles all over the place as well.
The ability to enforce tax upon the girls is a good idea, but you have to think about why they are doing this? it is not to make a million, for the majority they are feeding a drug habit or they are being forced into this to feed someone else's drug habit, getting them to do an end of year self assessment is going to be a complete non starter, no doubt they would try and claim the drugs as 'business use'
Call me old fashioned but I think the whole thing is just sad.
Detached sex makes people feel empty,and what has happened to those girls to bring them to the point where they sell their bodies
a lot of it is issues i have covered above, but going back to your first statement about it being sad, yes i agree, but for many detached sex is what they want, no fuss, no risk of a bunny boiler, just pay the money and do the deed, a means to an end, and in reality a lot of society is like that these days....detached, emotionless, sad i know.
i used to work with a guy who was in his early 20, he loved spending his money on pros, like the chap Richie was on about, he would get to the week before payday and go asking people in work if they would lend him a tenner or £20, he even went up to accounts and asked for an advance on his wages, and was very direct when they asked him what he wanted it for!!! he saw nothing wrong with it :-/ :-/
There is no right way of dealing with this, but control would be the less contentious, but its a brave government who attempts to deal with it in the UK
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