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Prostitution and the legal system
Prostitution and the legal system
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2008
By:
Nina Teggarty
The murders of five women prostitutes in Ipswich last year is focusing attention on how the law deals with prostitution or fails to.
In the UK, buying or selling sex is legal, but many activities related to prostitution, such as kerb crawling and soliciting, are not.
But other countries do things very differently, as More4 News found out accompanying a ministerial fact-finding team to Amsterdam.
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