| # | Name | Comments |
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| 51 | Anonymous | |
| 52 | Kevin Mrlow | I agree with the above statment that i have just been reading. I would like to pin point one thing that i find very true 'slavery was abolished in the UK almost 200 years ago, slavery still exists for many women in prostitution in the UK'. So why is it not illegal to prostitute wen it is a form of slavery... |
| 53 | Anonymous | |
| 54 | Alice McNeill | |
| 55 | Karla Theodore | |
| 56 | JordanRichardson | |
| 57 | Anonymous | |
| 58 | Jill Robbie | |
| 59 | Claire Ferry | Let's try to see something good come from the recent horrific events in Ipswich. If this doesn't convince people that prositutes have a right to safe working conditions like anyone else, I don't know what will. |
| 60 | Meghan Field | |
| 61 | Anonymous | I think a drugs debate is also required as 95% of streetwalkers are addicted to heavy drugs and have to make money to fund their habbit, a horrible cycle of abuse and self abuse. More funding for addicts and effect treatment plans in the long term will greatly help the economy as well as the individual |
| 62 | Joanna Dalzell | It is ridiculous that men are not held accountable for what is abusive behaviour, while women are held accountable for the abuse they are suffering |
| 63 | Anonymous | I agree entirely with this radical approach.
I see that legalising brothels, from evidence in other countries, does not achieve the aims that may have been hoped. |
| 64 | Maria Carlshamre | The murders in Ipswich has given new urgency to this issue! We need bold action now.
Maria Carlshamre |
| 65 | denise fitzpatrick | I urge all Mp's to sign EDM 1359 re: convention on trafficking. Reform of current laws on prostitution are also necessary to protect the most vulnerable in our society. Unfortunately five tragedies have had to happen to move this issue up the political agenda. Let's not let this pass by without taking this opportunity to protect others. The focus of the offence should be on those who perpetuate this trade in human misery through demand. Sex workers themselves need to be protected not criminalised.
Yours Sincerely,
Denise fitzpatrick |
| 66 | vic cutting | This issue needs to be reviewed, especially considering recent events in Ipswich. |
| 67 | jennifer England | |
| 68 | Peter early | |
| 69 | AVRIL WOOSTER | The only way to combat prostitution and the abuses it causes to all involved is to CRIMINALISE THE USER.
This is the only proactive way forward and there is no reason on this earth why it should not be passed as a law.
If we abuse via other means we are prosecuted for our crimes---WHY NOT THIS ONE? |
| 70 | Margaret Nelson | I live within a couple of miles of where the first murdered prostitute was found in Ipswich recently. The murders prompted me to think about prostitution, and how to deal with it. When I read about the Swedish solution, it struck me that this would be the best way forward in the UK. I've been researching and blogging about prostitution and the more I learn, the more angry I am about the complacency of those who defend it as "the oldest profession". |
| 71 | Susan Radcliffe | |
| 72 | Vicky Wilson | |
| 73 | Diana Ball | The idea of making the clients the criminals rather than the prostitutes makes sense whenone considers that a lot of prostitutes are either illegal immigrants or drug addicts. |
| 74 | Kelly Hamer | |
| 75 | Anonymous | |
| 76 | Aileen McGibbon | |
| 77 | Sam Berg | The core problem of sexism is that men feel they have a right to use all female bodies any time they want, any way they want. We must reject the patriarchal notion that men have a right to sexually access women's bodies and we're not going to be effective lessening sexist ills until we stop looking at prostituted women as if it were they who had the problem that need fixing.
The Swedish policy addressing prostitution as women experience it (harmful, humiliating, violent) instead of how men experience it (harmless, entertaining, pleasurable) is a revolutionary moment in the history of the women's movement. |
| 78 | anna red | |
| 79 | gerry capone | |
| 80 | Johanna Kohl | |
| 81 | Philip Burton | Violence against women, especially sexual violence is very common and nowhere more so than in the sex industry. The Swedish model is a bold and successful way to combat the abuse of women in prostitution and Britain would do well to emulate such a positive campaign. |
| 82 | Anonymous | |
| 83 | Jess Mandeville | |
| 84 | Julie Botten | |
| 85 | jemma piggins | we need to be proactive about adressing this problem and a reform of the legislation around prostitution can only be positive if we are to start tackling other social/criminal activities linked to the sex industy such as drug abuse, violence against women etc. |
| 86 | Anonymous | I HAVE always been of the opinion that all prostitutes should be protected in every way possible .It is absured that in this day and age they are treated the way they are is very bad .Hope something can be done in the future . |
| 87 | Nicola Gawn | Trainee Clinical Psychologist working with vulnerable people |
| 88 | Laura Colclough | Prostitution causes harm. Often prostitutes are extremely vulnerable women who have been sexually abused, or raped in the past. They are often living out the lessons of their childhood where by giving you body to a man is a way to recieve love. and affection. |
| 89 | Zoe Crossfield | |
| 90 | Gemma Evans | |
| 91 | Anonymous | |
| 92 | Anonymous | |
| 93 | claire moss | something needs to be done to make these women feel more safer and secure in todays society |
| 94 | emma white | |
| 95 | Leigh | |
| 96 | christine nash | |
| 97 | Maureen O'Hara | |
| 98 | Carol Gilles | Most prostitutes have no choice; all punters have the choice. Most prostitutes are women; most punters are men - coincidence???? |
| 99 | Rhona Burns | I am a representative on the Board of UNANIMA International, an NGO which works for women and children. Our current work is centred on human trafficking, particularly of women and children, and we are shortly to launch a campaign aimed at reducing the demand for prostitution. The link between trafficking, prostitution and what amounts to modern slavery, is irrefutable. It is essential that the law is changed to protect vulnerable women and children and that (ab)users of sex, pimps, profiteers and clients are borought to justice. |
| 100 | Esme Goff | |