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It's not really legal in the UK. True it's legal to pay for sex, but it's illegal to offer sex for payment, or to live off immoral earnings.
by diroussel 13y ago
It's not really legal in the UK.
True it's legal to pay for sex, but it's illegal to offer sex for payment, or to live off immoral earnings.
- jiggy2011 13y agoIt is only illegal to live off somebody else's immoral earnings (i.e pimping / running a brothel). It's also illegal to solicit in a public place (i.e kerb crawling). It's certainly not illegal to respond to an advert offering paid sex or to place such an advert. I have no idea what the law would be regards propositioning people at random. Edit: Paying for the services of someone who is coerced into prostitution against their will is also illegal. Source: http://sw5.info/law/punters/ http://sw5.info/law/punters/
- grannyg00se 13y agoImmoral earnings? Based on who'se morals? I hope it's not actually worded that way.
- jiggy2011 13y agoIt actually is! I presume it implies the morals of the Church of England.
- tommorris 13y agoOr the inherent moral view of legislation. I know. A shocking concept: law has underlying moral values like "it's bad to kill people" and "stealing people's cars is wrong" and so on.
- grannyg00se 13y agoYeah but murder is written into the law directly and so is theft, not some abstract notion of morality that differs from person to person and culture to culture.
- diroussel 13y agoSo if paying so sex is made illegal, what happens if you pay your wife for sex? Not sure how this works in other countries, I guess it must be clarified somehow? In the UK it's very common for laws to be vague.
- DanBC 13y agoHere's the act (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/part/1/crossheading/exploitation-of-prostitution http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/part/1/crosshead...)