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I was reading grego's thread about escort services and it reminded me about an article on BBC 24 hour news early this morning, which I can't seem to find any reference to on the BBC site so please forgive me while I try to give you the information, (anyone that finds a reference please post).

The article was stating that women that have been duped into coming over here then forced into prostitution should be treated as victims not illegals, I think thats fair enough.

They then went on to say that 10 years ago 85% of the women involved in prostitution were British.

Now however, it has been estimated that 85% of women within this trade are of foreign nationality, they then went on to say that it is unknown how many of these foreign women are forced into the trade.

Obviously anyone forced to do something against their will is wrong.

There are customers out there and there are providers for that service. But if as one member of our police force mentioned in that article the number of women forced into it is unknown, rather than wringing their hands and saying, Oh dear me how terrible something needs to be done, by our representitives, they should (and so should the men involved in purchasing this commodity), act.

Like the idea or hate it, for the protection of these women, legalise prostitution then at least we can keep a check on what is going on, any brothel that isn't legal, doesn't have legal, card carrying whores to be shut down and the owners prosecuted to the maximum. Any man that uses illegal brothels similar.

I don't think any women should be forced into this situation. Most of this seems to be happening around our larger Cities but how long before the Lancashire Evening Telegraph starts reporting 'foreign sex slaves' in our neighbourhood?