Not on our Streets - Huffington Post UK (blog)

Not on our Streets
Huffington Post UK (blog)
In Sweden, for example, it is actually illegal to buy sex. But, it's widely argued, this simply drives the practice underground. Prostitution is a risky business. Nor is it feasible to eradicate it. Selling sex stills takes place in Sweden.

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UK jails man for inciting child prostitution - WGME

UK jails man for inciting child prostitution
WGME
LONDON (AP) -- A British judge has sentenced a Bangladeshi man to 15 years in prison for paying young girls for sex and trying to recruit others into prostitution in northern England. Azad Miah, 44, was convicted of trying to lure four young girls into ...

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Secret Service Scandal: Why Men Buy Sex - LiveScience.com

Secret Service Scandal: Why Men Buy Sex
LiveScience.com
One 2006 study conducted in Sweden and published in the journal Sexologies reviewed research on why men frequent prostitutes and found that the answers fell in five categories. Some men had what the researcher called a "whore fantasy," marked by ...

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Decriminalisation 'healthier for prostitutes' - TVNZ

Decriminalisation 'healthier for prostitutes'
TVNZ
Debate over sex laws is raging in Scotland, which is looking at legislation in Sweden, where the client is criminalised. However, evidence suggests the Swedish model pushes sex work underground, often exposing prostitutes to violence and exploitation.

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law 'healthier for prostitutes' - Stuff.co.nz


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law 'healthier for prostitutes'
Stuff.co.nz
Debate over sex laws is raging in Scotland, which is looking at legislation in Sweden, where the client is criminalised. However, evidence suggests the Swedish model pushes sex work underground, often exposing prostitutes to violence and exploitation.

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Social housing provider operates hotel brothels - Vancouver Courier

Social housing provider operates hotel brothels
Vancouver Courier
Fortunately, there are solutions, namely the Nordic model, a set of policies targeting the demand side of prostitution (pimps and johns). When adopted in 1999, the Nordic model virtually emptied Sweden of prostitution. Countries such as Norway and ...

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A Prosecutor Sets His Sights On the Johns - Huffington Post

A Prosecutor Sets His Sights On the Johns
Huffington Post
Fourteen men appeared in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Monday, charged with patronizing a prostitute, after a crackdown on a brutal sex trafficking ring run by a father and son team from Pennsylvania. This is one of the few high profile ...

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Jail for heads of massive sex trafficking ring - The Local.se

Jail for heads of massive sex trafficking ring
The Local.se
Two Romanian men were sentenced on Monday to six years prison for smuggling eleven women to Sweden as part of a brutal and far-reaching prostitution ring. The case has been labelled as Sweden's biggest human smuggling case, and at least four other men ...

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Lorber solicits US rights to Fokkens - C21Media

Lorber solicits US rights to Fokkens
C21Media
The film has already been acquired by DR in Denmark, YLE in Finland, Belgium's VMMA, CBC Documentary in Canada, Globosat in Brazil and UR in Sweden. It joins another prostitution doc, Whores' Glory, charting the lives of sex workers in Thailand, ...

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Why men buy sex - Examiner.com

Why men buy sex
Examiner.com
Some men visit prostitutes because they want more sex or a different kind of person than their regular partner, while others are lonely, and still others are socially awkward and have trouble on the typical dating scene. And a study in Sweden found ...

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