I imagine this is yet another example of NuLab (unattainable) perfect chasing out the good. From Smith's interview with the Bindel (isn't the legislation in part based on her "research"?) in today's Guardian she openly admits that her ambition is to stop men paying for sex. Well, I wish her luck, but several thousand years of trying, some of it by people a lot wiser than smith, suggests there's a bit of wishful thinking going on there.
It would be nice to hope that some useful research had been done on how prostitution is dealt with around the world, determining what is possible and what isn't and then determining a pragmatic set of policies centered around the greater public good. Unfortunately, this is the UK, so we get a load of puritanical authoritarianism which will achieve little but the further immiseration of those in the trade. This time, apparently, in the name of feminism. Trebles all round and a Stonewall nomination I imagine.
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Date: 2008-11-20 11:19 am (UTC)It would be nice to hope that some useful research had been done on how prostitution is dealt with around the world, determining what is possible and what isn't and then determining a pragmatic set of policies centered around the greater public good. Unfortunately, this is the UK, so we get a load of puritanical authoritarianism which will achieve little but the further immiseration of those in the trade. This time, apparently, in the name of feminism. Trebles all round and a Stonewall nomination I imagine.