Prostitution - making it legal!

Following on from the fine words of that great source of wisdom and obvious intellect (aka the Home Secretary) regarding her proposal that those who have sex with people who have been forced into prostitution will face prosecution, I have designed a questionnaire for those wishing to use prostitutes.

It ensures that before any sexual transaction is made the (potential) customer can be sure of:

i. The fact that they love their work and are doing it merely as a chosen career path,

ii. That any products used are, wherever possible, 'Fairtrade' and that any condoms, oils, leather goods or associated sexual apparatus all comes from fairly traded sources, and lastly

iii. The fact that confidentiality is guaranteed. After all, some people seem to think that the sex trade is damaging to those who purchase as much as those who supply. Some foolish people see such transaction as offered and taken up within a prostitution encounter as damaging to the well-being of both family and society and therefore working on a "what they don't know won't hurt them," is obviously the best option.

I have sent my questionnaire to the laudable Ms. Smith in the hope that she will have it read to her and perhaps even colour in the pictures I have helpfully included (taken from Richard Burton's fine "Kama Sutra - a children's colouring-in book!").

Let's hope we can move this forward and deal with the issue that really matter here. Or - we could just act against slavery, enforced labour and prostitution as areas that need attention, legislation and action of a joined-up kind

Having worked with, and knowing in the past, a number of prostitutes (male and female) it seems to me that the majority of those engaged in this, the oldest of professions, are forced into it by situation, circumstance and the like. Perhaps she'd like to see to it that those who cannot support their families by any other means have less need to engage in such an occupation by just and able government.

Then again, we could just buy another bank and continue to let those in the financial sector (and I don't mean the rank and file workers) believe that they have a right to the money and privilege that even now they continue to be afforded!