In the United Kingdom, prostitution itself (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not a crime, but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning a brothel, pimping and pandering, are crimes.

Bugger... I was going pandering this weekend.

It's a bit ridiculous really, I mean I don't understand how abortion is legal, because it's a womans right and it's her own body etc etc but then she doesn't have the right to charge men for sex with her own body.

She does :

In England and Wales and in Northern Ireland it is ONLY an offence to pay for sex with a prostitute who has been “subjected to force” and this is a strict liability offence (clients can be prosecuted even if they didn’t know the prostitute was forced).

It is illegal to buy sex from a person younger than 18, although the age of consent for non-commercial sex is 16.

I think you're misinterpreting legal intricacies that take years to learn.

I'm confused, is prostitution legal in the UK then? I know they're not here:conf:

The UK law sounds a bit complicated, seems that it might be alright for one person to pay another person to have sex with them but then there's loads of laws surrounding it which makes it almost impossible to do so legally

This is from the BBC:

No, I'm not :

What is the current law on prostitution?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7736436.stm

So basically you can do it but you can't advertise yourself or the service?

Yes ..... and doing it under any form of duress is illegal

Yeah I guess so and it can't really be done as a business or any kind of organisation

hhmmm, why else would you be having sex for money other than as a business transaction though?

Omah, I wrote a dissertation on the Sexual Offences Act as part of my degree. Believe me, it was complicated enough for me not to want to have a tit-for-tat discussion with you unless you can do it without the cut and paste function and without reading from snippets of info you're finding as a result of Googling.

Law to criminalise men who pay for sex with trafficked women
 

Wednesday 19 November 2008 09.15 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...tution-justice

I've no idea :shrug: All seems a bit complicated, I'd always just thought prostitution was illegal and that was that

Nothing I have said is incorrect ..... :nono:

me too, I don't know why they have to make things so complicated, it obviously is illegal but they don't want to just say that for some reason.

The whole of society and dating is based on prostitution. Date a lass and buy a meal you are paying for sex. Accept a meal and give sex you are prostituting........

Anyone who thinks they are better than prostitutes and clients are deluding themselves.....

Is there a difference between prostitution and escorts, I don't know? Seems to me to be one of those things though that doesn't really get addressed properly though. It feels a bit like 'well you can do this, but you can't do that' and I don't see what difference it makes. Imo it should be made more clear and legalised so that women do not continue to be exploited, hurt and abused because they are vulnerable to the illegalities of it

You haven't really said anything. You've just cut and pasted some stuff you found online. Opinion is one thing, interpreting what is a very intricate law is something else.

What a sad, bitter little view you must have of people.

Of course ..... :thumbs:

But some posters believe that prostitution, per se, is illegal in the UK, which, apparently, is not the case ..... ;)

Of course, I stand to be corrected if you can provide links to learned sources ..... :idc:

True, and some posters, dare I say MOST posters on here - as well as the vast majority of the public will be under the same perception - given the finely detailed intricacies surrounding the matter.

the concept remains the same - and it is that very fine line that determines what is legal and what is not. (whether we agree with the finer details or not).

Escorts usually tend to be better looking

It's just a load of moral BS no doubt linked to the church.

Giving the illusion of not condoning prostitution but still allowing it to happen. It goes on everywhere these days and is not even subtle. I think it's just basically streetwalkers who are targetted because they can be a nuisance to the residence of the area.