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Service.com slash podcasts. It is not right to pay for sex.

There is a new value in society which appreciates that prostitution is exploitive of women

and in particular young women.

I don't mind if you find what I do morally repugnant at all.

It's about our right to work and safety.

There's never been a society without prostitution and neither will there be.

I am Analiza Perras. Europe is in the grip of a huge struggle to work out the best way to manage prostitution.

You know, point your finger at a group of people and say they are all victims and if they say otherwise, they don't know what's good for them.

Then something happens in society because you actually give it gives an alibi for discrimination against this group and it also raises the social stigma.

If you are in prostitution and prostitution is a crime, that means that you are a victim of a crime.

A model pioneered in Sweden in which selling sex is legal, but buying it is not, has been gained support in some countries but other

countries are considering a different approach.

Legalization essentially means that it's legal to have brothels and what you see in Germany is the rise of super brothels.

When you decriminalize, you move the sex industry to the surface of society and you apply labor laws and regulations on the sex industry as well.

The countries of Europe cannot decide on a unified approach.

They can do agree on one thing.

Forcing people into prostitution and sexual trafficking is wrong and must be stopped.

The common denominator is vulnerability,

whether that be economically vulnerable,

whether that be vulnerable in terms of their family backgrounds,

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