A new offence of buying sex?
Very much in support of the idea of criminalising the buying of sex rather than the sale of it, as floated by women ministers, according to the Guardian’s front page today:
Senior members of the government are discussing whether to criminalise the purchase, rather than sale, of sex - as Sweden did eight years ago - in part because of the growth in sex trafficking. According to the government, 85% of women in brothels come from outside the UK.
This sentence, however, gave me pause:
The government has won praise from unexpected sources for other socially conservative measures recently, ranging from scrapping plans for a supercasino to launching a review of media violence and its impact on children and young people.
Are these really socially-conservative measures? Had never struck me as such.
Have you not seen the Mail pushing for these? Isn’t that usually a rule of thumb for defining a “socially-conservative measure”?