Time to legalise and protect sex workers

YESTERDAY we reported on a survey that found that almost half of men who buy sex are in a relationship. As many said they paid for sex a few times a year. Some, heart-warmingly, expressed concern for women working in the sex industry.

Today we report on an American Government study that found an increase in human trafficking from Romania or Nigeria drove a 73% increase in sex industry exploitation or forced labour cases last year.

Suspected human trafficking jumped from 46 in 2014 to 78 in 2015, some 22 of whom were children. The US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report 2016 said that 48 people were suspected victims of sex trafficking and that 28 were exploited for labour trafficking.