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.
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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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