Fewer men are paying for sex, survey suggests

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475. It was reduced for a few years

They cracked down on the johns which had the effect of moving street prostitutes out of the mainstream and into the back alleys where they face even worse conditions than before. Even the Swedish government admits street level prostitution is back to 2/3rds of what it was when the law was enacted. Because of the internet street level prostitution has declined world wide in favor of indoor prostitution so there's no reason to believe the law had any permanent affect whatsoever other than to drive the trade even farther underground.

The 'theory' behind the law was that all women are victims and all men are predators so the idea was to clamp down on the johns and offer alternatives to the prostitutes. Not surprisingly the prostitutes rejected the alternatives. By all reasonable accounts the law was a failure.

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