Posted: Jul 08, 2012 8:34 am
Kenneth-Kaunda wrote:I did say 'effectively banned' - meaning restricted in some kind of legal way, whether it be the purchasing, selling, soliciting or whatever.
but no one has yet come up with a WHY.
so why is is banned?
Well in the vast majority of cases it isn't even "effectively" banned. The Swedish approach is unusual and quite recent.
In most western countries selling sex is completely legal. Yes, it's subject to certain restrictions which might affect style of operating, advertising etc. But these are not designed to make it impossible to do, nor do they have that effect. It is fundamentally a perfectly legal transaction.
There are of course plenty of other things that are legal to sell but subject to restrictions. We don't say that alcohol is "banned" because you can't sell it to minors; or that plastic surgery is "banned" because you have to be qualified and registered to perform it. These kinds of things are perfectly normal when societies consider the effect of certain kinds of commerce outside of the transaction itself.
Sorry but the premise of your OP is simply wrong.