Get The Customer!
Finally! Something I have been saying all along. Get rid of the demand, not the supply. I even said it to an aide of then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in 2004... and they were very pro the idea! Who knew? -- Eliot, it was the hypocrisy that did you in. Sweden's sex law: Get the customer Once a radical model, it's now under consideration by other countries Selling sex isn't illegal in Sweden, but buying is — a radical approach to prostitution that faced ridicule when it was introduced nine years ago. Now, while Americans are preoccupied with the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in a prostitution scandal, some countries are considering emulating the Swedish model, which prosecutes the client but views the prostitute as an exploited victim. Officials say the changed approach has reduced the demand for prostitutes and reshaped attitudes toward the sex trade. "We don't have a problem with prostitutes. We have a problem with men who buy sex," said Kajsa ...