This is an interesting area of policy and one that has difficult moral issues.
By having a prostitution strategy the Government appears to be saying that because "the oldest profession in the world" cannot be stopped we must therefore regulate what happens. This is an interesting perspective because my understanding is that one of the major sources of prostitutes is those young women who wish to travel here from Eastern Europe. Although they do not know it at the time they will pay for their passage here by becoming associated with a pimp in the UK. One cannot help thinking therefore that rather than expending energy trying to regulate prostitution the Government be spending more energy regulating the flow of migrants for prostitution.
By having a prostitution strategy the Government appears to be saying that because "the oldest profession in the world" cannot be stopped we must therefore regulate what happens. This is an interesting perspective because my understanding is that one of the major sources of prostitutes is those young women who wish to travel here from Eastern Europe. Although they do not know it at the time they will pay for their passage here by becoming associated with a pimp in the UK. One cannot help thinking therefore that rather than expending energy trying to regulate prostitution the Government be spending more energy regulating the flow of migrants for prostitution.
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