[pendy]

There are red light areas already. Shepherd Market in London is for the upmarket stuff, and just try walking around Soho in the evening. Same in any large city - even in small towns - remember the Barbary Coast?

Anything that keeps girls off the street and makes them safer is okay by me. Licensing will do away with a lot of the abuses, but I'm not sure it will stop pimping, even if it is by the "landlord". Using industrial estates may be a good idea, but they are empty and not very safe at nights - and once the mugging crowd catch on to the fact that there are punters turning up with hard cash, they could be less safe still.

A previously well-known "lady" had a flat in our block once (before I lived there) and apparently the number of visitors grew exponentially! They didn't bother anybody else, so where's the problem.