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Re:My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation by geon on Monday October 02, 2017 @03:39AM (#15382245)
In sweden, prostitution is legal, so sex workers can contact police without fear.

However, pimping, brothels and buying sexual services is illegal.

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Re:My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation by candiodari on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:35AM (#15382453)
Buying sexual services is illegal ?

What does that mean ? A prostitute can just finger a client to the police as a client and the client gets arrested ?

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Re:My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation by nextweek2 on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:57AM (#15384242)
> Buying sexual services is illegal?

It's a way of making prostitution illegal without making the prostitute the one taking the risk. That way a prostitute can report an assault, without fear of recrimination.

Also, yes, the punter is taking a bigger risk and therefore less likely to engage such services.

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Re:My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation by geon on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:08AM (#15383925)
I doubt that would be grounds for an arrest, but there have been stakeouts where they arrested every customer coming out of a certain apartment.
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