tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post2113492738582631613..comments2023-10-04T16:22:32.920+01:00Comments on Thanet Strife: PROSTITUTION. KICKING THE CAT......?Bertie Biggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14197385124719226254noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post-16243294391353716902008-11-21T11:42:00.000+00:002008-11-21T11:42:00.000+00:00The reason for this "answer" is the same reason fo...The reason for this "answer" is the same reason for any such answers locally or nationally. A need to look good in the statistics while also being seen to do something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post-78989496022735722672008-11-20T10:33:00.000+00:002008-11-20T10:33:00.000+00:00I think the theory is that if you remove the marke...I think the theory is that if you remove the market by criminalising the buyer the the seller packs up !<BR/>A similar principal was applied to drink driving, ie make it unacceptable and the problems lessens, of course successive governments have tried and failed with various schemes to solve this problem and indeed are they serious about it ? where would senior Tories, Max Mosely and top High Court judges get their kick ?<BR/>Smoking is another example IF Governments were serious about stopping folks smoking they would just tax tobacco out of reach of all but the richest.Mike Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03395087168684101641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post-25148586998890427332008-11-19T21:28:00.000+00:002008-11-19T21:28:00.000+00:00Bertie, your sentence ". If we were less hypocriti...Bertie, your sentence ". If we were less hypocritical about prostitution we could perhaps eradicate the criminal involvement." sums up the situation. I can see no rational objection to whores touting for customers provided they are not doing so under duress from pimps or any other of the criminal vermin that infest our streets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post-83376940082685899852008-11-19T21:15:00.000+00:002008-11-19T21:15:00.000+00:00Couldn't agree more, Tony but would prefer to see ...Couldn't agree more, Tony but would prefer to see the real target being the traffickers and pimps. As you rightly highlight,it is quite amazing that advertisements for sexual services of 'foreign' girls are peddled by our local press!Bertie Biggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14197385124719226254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273124520330547347.post-47172226896605894292008-11-19T20:52:00.000+00:002008-11-19T20:52:00.000+00:00How incredible is it that, a major newspaper group...How incredible is it that, a major newspaper group is quite happy to publish adverts for foreign girls who provide massage services and in our local papers!<BR/><BR/>Should punters be criminalised for buying sex with womem trafficked from east europe and asia of course, which is part of the intention as I understand yes if stops the vile crime what's worse a criminal record or allowing rape to occur because someones paid a pimp?. A no really! <BR/><BR/>Of course licensed sex trade is good idea, but more should be done to protect those forced into the sex trade by low life pimpsTony Flaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15212662248741515725noreply@blogger.com