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Real reason for crackdown on prostitution



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SURPRISE, surprise: not a single case of 'trafficking' was thrown up after raids of all known outlets for off-street prostitution across Sheffield. A previous country-wide trawl, the Home Office claims, netted 88, but even this very small figure is bogus. It includes the 19 'rescued' in Birmingham, all of whom turned out to be immigrants, only six of whom were illegals, and none working against their will.
The police and Home Office went very quiet after these raids; as they did about raids on the Omega 'massage parlour' in Sheffield and a sister establishment in Leeds.

There is no confirmation that a single one of the 88 were actually 'trafficked' at all.

So what are the police up to? The Government's PC rhetoric - false though it is - is that all women must be being forced into prostitution. To further this propaganda, the cross-border movement of prostitutes is misrepresented as 'trafficking', which research shows to be a minuscule problem.

Now the bogus scare about a renewed 'white slave trade' is exposed as just a ruse to justify criminalising men, the latest ploy is to pick a number out of the air (5,000) for supposed domestic sex slavery of under-age girls. Now, this does indeed go on, but nobody - and certainly not the Government - knows the scale of it.

Do you agree? Post your comment below.

Home Office misrepresentation of prostitition was behind the crackdown on street 'vice' in Sheffield last week. Street 'vice' is now a tiny fraction of prostitution (which overall is continuing to grow).

So unless it's in residential areas then why bother with it? The Government rejected non-residential 'tolerance zones'. It 'gives out the wrong signal', the Home Office says. What they really mean is that it would admit the reality that women can and do freely choose prostitution.

If the authorities were serious about addressing street 'vice' then they wouldn't focus on the clients, but on the far smaller number of girls, who also perpetrate the great majority of any crime. 'Clipping' the clients (asking for and taking money and then not providing the service) is rife.

Prostitution is the exploitation by women of the universal male desire for novel sexual partners. To describe it as exploitation of women by men is a comical Home Office fraud: it has now spawned farcical proposals to criminalise the male buyer yet to regard the female seller as a victim.

Steve Moxon
Crookesmoor Road
Broomhill

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  • Last Updated: 01 April 2008 2:52 PM
  • Source: Sheffield Star
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Jason Bourne,

03/04/2008 15:49:16
How many of those females caught were drug addicts?

I doubt any self-respecting female would *choose* prostitution as a career; I'd argue many young prostitutes were abused and have drug addictions they need to pay for. The Polcie catch them, charge them, fine them... and how do they pay for their fines, hmm?

I'd like to see more efforts in (1) targeting the males who take advantage of prostitutes and (2) giving prostitutes the assistance they need in choosing an alternative 'career'.
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punterpride,

bury 08/04/2008 23:41:32
jasons comment is typical puritan propaganda! has he heard the english collective of prostitutes & international union of sexworkers views on the failed swedish "experiment"? women have a right to do what they want with their own bodies and if that offends patronising men like jason-hard luck, if he wants to help sexworkers, why doesnt he get the govt to pay every woman in britain a decent wage so they can give up sexwork, of course taxes would have to rise but i'm sure jason would gladly pay more taxes,or am i being naive?
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SteveMD,

Salford 11/04/2008 12:43:21
As I remember the figure of 88 'rescued' women came from operation pentameter which was an international operation covering 22 countries, so that would average out at 4 women per country. Could this be why ministers have so much trouble telling us where they are?

We have heard of many raids on brothels which 'rescue' so-called trafficked women, but later the women turn out to be simply foreign. It has become the norm, for those who push the puritan crackdown, to declare all sex workers as 'forced into prostitution' and call all foreign sex workers 'trafficked'. There have even been reports that women 'rescued' by the police have been told by social workers that if they do not say they were trafficked, then they will be deported.

Clearly it is just as profitable for Polish (or any other E.U. nationality) prostitutes to come to the U.K. to work as it is for Polish plumbers or builders and so an influx of foreign sex workers is to be expected.

As for the Dworkin inspired attitude that women cannot choose to be sex workers, this simply treats women like children who cannot make adult decisions and must be prevented by law from doing things certain 'feminists' do not like. A true feminist would protect every womans right to choose, even if they did not agree with some of the choices made.

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ericsson,

worrall 16/04/2008 14:18:31
Women free to choose? – Girls made to choose!
I read with disgust the article by S Moxon in the April 2nd edition of the Star.
His opinion was that women do freely choose prostitution and that, quote “Prostitution is the exploitation by women of the universal male desire for novel sexual partners”.
His grievance was “’Clipping’ the clients (asking for and taking money and then not providing the service) is rife.”
To comment on his grievance first, how does he know this? Has he conducted a survey of his own or is the grievance the result of his own worldly experience?
On a far more serious note, it is evident that the ladies in question are not women, but young girls; furthermore, they are extensively very young girls who have been forced into prostitution. How have they been forced into prostitution you may well ask? They girls are ‘groomed’ by unscrupulous men, yes, Mr Moxon, men!
These vile people start the grooming process by introducing very young, immature and easily led girls to ‘soft’ drugs. They then gradually introduce the girls onto harder drugs until the girls are unable to quit. It is then that the men force the girls into doing something they really don’t want to do to in order to pay for their habit. Many of these girls are currently being forced into prostitution whilst still of school age. There are also racial and cultural ‘forces’ in play that would be difficult to expand upon in this article because of the possible repercussions, needless to say, the vast majority of these young girls are ‘white’.
Please do print my letter, not because I want to achieve some form of public attention, but because something needs to be done to put a stop to this process and to protect future generations of OUR children from this abuse. Editor South Yorkshire Folk
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