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[insan]

Road prostitutes in Spain don traffic jackets
Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:27 AM EDT
world-news, eu, spain, prostitutes, protecting
Associated Press


MADRID — A Spanish mayor says roadside prostitutes working outside his northeastern town have begun wearing reflective vests to avoid police fines.

Jose Maria Bea said some 10 prostitutes at a highway roundabout near Els Alamus began donning the phosphorescent green garments this month after police started fining them euro40 ($56). That's the amount anyone in Spain can be fined for standing or walking along a highway, such as during a vehicle breakdown, for not wearing the high-visibility vest.

Bea said it was dangerous for both the women and motorists if the prostitutes couldn't be seen clearly.

Sex is a huge industry in Spain. Pimping is illegal but prostitution is not, although some cities restrict or ban it in public areas.

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/2 ... ic-jackets

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Weird... .. a huge industry in Spain, eh? Do Europeans still hugely need prostitutes? Or particularly the Spanish?

[insan]

The Swedish Approach to Trafficking, Prostitution and the Sex Industry

Trafficking, Prostitution and the Sex Industry: The Nordic Legal Model

By Janice Raymond* - 21 July 2010

There is no doubt that the Nordic countries lead the world on most indicators of gender equality. Gender equality experts and advocates have long pointed out that in economics, politics and social services, the Nordic countries top the charts. A less noticed equality indicator is that the Nordic countries outpace others in legal action to stem the sex trade by addressing its unnoticed perpetrators -- the mainly male purchasers of women and children in prostitution.

In 1999, with the approval of over 70% of its surveyed population, Sweden passed groundbreaking legislation that criminalized the buyer of sexual services. Part of a larger Violence Against Women bill, the legislation was based on the foundation that the system of prostitution is a violation of gender equality. Sweden's legislation officially recognizes that it is unacceptable for men to purchase women for sexual exploitation, whether masked as sexual pleasure or "sex work." Equally important, its law acknowledges that a country cannot resolve its human trafficking problem without addressing the demand for prostitution. The law does not target the persons in prostitution.

This month, the government of Sweden published an evaluation of the law's first ten years and how it has actually worked in practice. Compared to the report's understated and cautious tone, the findings are strikingly positive: street prostitution has been cut in half; there is no evidence that the reduction in street prostitution has led to an increase in prostitution elsewhere, whether indoors or on the Internet; the bill provides increased services for women to exit prostitution; fewer men state that they purchase sexual services; and the ban has had a chilling effect on traffickers who find Sweden an unattractive market to sell women and children for sex.



http://www.wunrn.com/news/2010/07_10/07 ... sweden.htm

[bill cobbett]

Erm ........ why the sudden interest in the sex industry mate?

.... just asking.

[ZoC]

Erm ........ why the sudden interest in the sex industry mate?

.... just asking.

market research, i expect... selling arse is the turdland's biggest industry.

[bill cobbett]

Erm ........ why the sudden interest in the sex industry mate?

.... just asking.

market research, i expect... selling arse is the turdland's biggest industry.

... as long as no one posts any lewd, sordid pickies to illustrate.......