According
to The Guardian, Northern Ireland passed a
controversial law on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 targeting prostitution clients
by making it illegal to pay for sex.
The legislation outlawing buying sex is found
in one clause in the Human
Trafficking and Exploitation Bill, and was subsequently approved in the Stromont
assembly’s affirmative vote on the overarching bill.
According to The Guardian, at least one politician, Justice
Minister David Ford, opposed addressing several different issues in one piece
of legislation, stating that he didn’t believe “the complexities of
prostitution can be adequately addressed in a single clause in a bill.”
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A recent survey
of Northern Ireland sex workers revealed that an overwhelming majority of
sex workers also opposed the new law and didn’t believe criminalizing their
clients would serve to “protect” them, but would actually have the opposite
effect. According to The Guardian, “about 17,500 men pay for sex in Northern Ireland
every year.”
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