Why are there no prostitutes in UK?
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Because you have not looked hard enough for them.
Go to Soho off Oxford Street.
Because we dont have the Euro?
Are you kidding?
There are. You aren't looking hard enough.
That's just hillarious.
You might as well ask why there are no Chinamen in China.
Of course there are prostitues in the UK, as well as every other country/city.
Prostitution in the UK is worth more than three-quarters of a billion pounds a year, new research has suggested.
Researchers at the Royal Economic Society found that £770m is spent on prostitution every year, far more than the £400m Britons spend on going to the cinema.
They estimated that legalising prostitution could help the government to raise £250m a year in extra tax revenue.
Black economy
The researchers collected their figures from internet sites, so it is possible that claims about earnings could have been exaggerated.
Nevertheless, the findings could be of interest to the Treasury, as it struggles to clamp down on the black economy and raise extra taxes.
But the government's advisory group on women's issues has said that economic issues should not be brought into any debate on prostitution.
What makes you think that they arent?
There are of course
HOME OFFICE ANNOUNCES CRACKDOWNS, COMPULSION AND MORE CRIMINALISATION FOR SEX WORKERS
Despite acknowledgement that at least 60 prostitute women have been murdered in the last 10 years, the government is today announcing that it is abandoning its consultation and proposed review of the prostitution laws in favour of increased enforcement. This goes against all the evidence which shows that criminalization and crackdowns make sex workers more vulnerable to rape, other violence and even murder.
Measures being announced include increased clampdowns against kerb crawlers – no doubt in the name of equality. Yet, in Sweden, legislation introduced to criminalize the buying of sex has had a devastating effect on prostitute women.
Neither the poverty which forces women into prostitution to support themselves and their families or any of the grave injustices in the existing legislation have been addressed:
* The discrimination that labels a woman a “common prostitute” before trial (guilty before proven innocent) continues.
* The law which criminalises child prostitutes remains despite opposition from children’s charities, the Magistrates Association and many others.
These measures are in addition to:
* Anti Social Behaviour Orders which have reintroduced prison sentences for loitering and soliciting. Women leaving prison having lost their housing (and in some cases custody of their children) have little choice but to go back on the game.
* Police and immigration raids on premises using anti-trafficking legislation to step up deportations of immigrant sex workers
* An increase in the sentence for brothel-keeping from six months to seven years -- a measure which is now being used to intimidate and threaten the maids whom prostitute women working from premises rely on for safety (see below).
This punitive approach is disguised by the announcement of the extension of (compulsory) services. Arrest referral schemes don’t work – they don’t meet women’s needs and where they exist women complain of abusive and judgmental treatment.
English Collective of Prostitutes, 28 December 2005
There are loads!
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