Norway makes it a criminal offense to pay for sex
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The Norwegian Parliament has voted in favour of making payment for sexual acts a criminal offence in order to protect vulnerable women and children. The law passed with 44 votes in favour and 28 against and will come into effect on January 1, 2009.
The legislation -- inspired by the success of neighbouring Sweden which criminalised the purchasing of sex in 1999 -- is actually rather more robust than that of its next door neighbour, setting a new pace for prostitution law reform.
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See also:
Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before?
In 1999, after years of research and study, Sweden passed legislation that a) criminalizes the buying of sex, and b) decriminalizes the selling of sex.
A Closer Look at Sweden's Success with Reducing Prostitution; Skeptics Rebutted
Bloomberg Columnist Likes Sweden's Approach to Prostitution
US Department of State: "Prostitution: To Legalize Or Not"
Even the representative from the Netherlands said that the legalization of prostitution had not accomplished what it was supposed to. Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, her country's National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings, said in candor that: "One of the goals was to get crime out. Did we succeed? I don't think so."
In a worthy step to the Netherlands' credit, earlier this year, the city of Amsterdam closed about one-third of the city's infamous red-light district because legalization and regulation have not dried up sex trafficking, which has continued apace.
It was gratifying to know that as we learn more about the vicious exploitation that occurs in prostitution, and the link between prostitution and sex trafficking, countries are willing to reexamine their legal regimes.
MSNBC Investigates Human Trafficking and Prostitution in the US; Valley Advocate Advertises "Foreign Fantasies" Where "Everything Goes"
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