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Sex for sale: Why Sweden punishes buyers

By Alliance Alert

Christian Science Monitor: "At a time when some governments are trying ? and failing ? to combat sex trafficking by legalizing prostitution, Sweden?s innovative approach stands out as an exemplary model of lawmaking that reduces prostitution, penalizes men, and protects women . . . Sweden does not penalize the persons in prostitution but makes resources available to them. Instead it targets and exposes the anonymous perpetrators ? the buyers, mostly men, who purchase mainly women and children in prostitution. The key to the law?s effectiveness lies not so much in penalizing the men (punishments are modest) but in removing the invisibility of the buyers and making their crimes public."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).