Should Sex Work be criminalised in the United Kingdom by Nicholas Malekos https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l Made with magic en-us 2020-11-06 14:18:54 UTC 2025-05-12 13:55:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Week 1 nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005935787 This week I spent researching into different aspects of sex effecting society and the negative aspects sex has on a shy society like the UK.

I read an interesting article from the Telegraph that accepted and praised the Brits reluctance to openly talk about sex as one of our "Greatest Assests"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/02/infamous-british-reluctance-talk-openly-sex-one-greatest-assets/]]> 2020-12-10 13:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005935787 Week 2 nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005936017 I largely spent most of this week brainstorming different ideas but not a lot of ideas really struck me as being interesting enough to write about.]]> 2020-12-10 13:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005936017 Week 3 nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005936249 I finally discovered my essay topic with the first draft title being "To what extent would the criminalisation of prostitution impact the UK."

The reason behind me choosing this topic is because I think it provided an interesting argument against society and when I asked people their opinions or sex work it was all negative and surrounded by stigmas. So I set off to write an essay with evaluative research to decide whether prostitution is inherently harmful to society or its workers.

I started planing out my essay and separating my points etc.

Positive Impacts of criminalising prostitution.

Prostitution isn’t safe for the sex workers, as it’s not monitored by tge government and is usually paid i cash meaning that it canno’t be traced, therefore endangering sex workers.

Lower the risk of sexually transmitted diseases being spread across the public? Therefore increasing public safety

Tarnish the reputation of a place, i.e london has a large tourism market.. Compare to countries like thai land where it is all legal

This was backed up by research into the pros and cons of prostitution
https://www.theweek.co.uk/59604/prostitution-the-pros-and-cons-of-decriminalisation

Negative Impact of criminilsation of prostitution.

Safety of the UK public - Criminalising the sale of sex could potentially lead to an increase in sexual offences such a rape and sexual harassment. This would be linked to a research journal conducted in Sweden which saw how the banning of prostitution lead to a direct increase in rape cases.
Liberty - Surely its better if we can live in a country where we can do things that won't harm you, rather than living in a society where the state dictates everything we do.

Potential Solution to the problem

Alternative approaches to banning prositituion as a whole - Have it safely monitored by the government, so that people can be kept safe whilst continuing to work and earn a living, similar to how in the Netherlands prostituion is regulated and subject to income tax

]]> 2020-12-10 13:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005936249 Week 4 nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005936536 Negative Impact of criminilsation of prostitution.

Safety of the UK public - Criminalising the sale of sex could potentially lead to an increase in sexual offences such a rape and sexual harassment. This would be linked to a research journal conducted in Sweden which saw how the banning of prostitution lead to a direct increase in rape cases.
Liberty - Surely its better if we can live in a country where we can do things that won't harm you, rather than living in a society where the state dictates everything we do.

Potential Solution to the problem

Alternative approaches to banning prositituion as a whole - Have it safely monitored by the government, so that people can be kept safe whilst continuing to work and earn a living, similar to how in the Netherlands prostituion is regulated and subject to income tax

I looked further into this argument of Liberty and found a famous argument between Lord Patrick Devlin and Herbert Hart, where they argued over how society shares a public morality and that our law has to uphold the public morality whilst also maintaining peoples liberty as just because the public view something as wrong it shouldn't make it illegal.

Devlin, P (1965) ‘The morality of the criminal law’, p178-190, Available at: https://faculty.berea.edu/faculty/butlerj/Devlin.pdf (Date Accessed: 1 December 2020)

Hart, H. Wasserstrom,R (1971) Mortality and the Law, London:Wadsworth Publishing

I then looked further into whether Prostitution was physically harmful or whether it was other crimes related to prostitution that led to the stigmatisation the occupation.

Moen, Ole (2014) ‘Is prostitution harmful’, Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol.40 , No. 2 pp.76

]]> 2020-12-10 13:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005936536 Week 5 nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005936897 I decided to change my draft questions in week 5 as I found it too specific so I changed it to "Should sex work be criminalised in the UK" As this way I could explore different countries legal models such as The Netherlands, Sweden and Germany.

I also found some interesting statistics to back up my research into a study on Sweden, that proved that the banning of prostitution had negative harmful impacts on sexual offences causing the average mean number to double over a period of 15 years.

This helped back up my evidence that the ban seemed more inherently harmful than the sex work.

]]> 2020-12-10 13:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005936897 Week 6 nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005937229 I spent the majority of this week typing up multiple drafts of my essay, which ultimately led to my third draft and heavy restructuring of the essay to make sure my argument was concise, but heavily reinforced by my bibliography. This proved particularly difficult when evaluating the argument between Hart and Devlin as not only was it hard finding their original source arguments which had be unaltered, it was made even more difficult by hearing both of their compelling arguments and having to decide which one was right in my opinion. Further I had to compare their arguments to modern day swell, as they originally took place in the 70's and the publics 'shared morality' has changed significantly since then so I had to find away to evolve their argument to speak about todays society and the laws that were regionally made in the 70's but are still enforced today.]]> 2020-12-10 13:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005937229 nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005962470 2020-12-10 13:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005962470 nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005963489 2020-12-10 13:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1005963489 Bibliography nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1006031886 Bibliography

CARE, (2016), ‘Written evidence submitted by CARE (Christian Action Research and Education)’ Available at: http://data.parliament.uk/WrittenEvidence/CommitteeEvidence.svc/EvidenceDocument/Home%20Affairs/Prostitution/written/29055.html#_ftnref6(Accessed 5 December 2020)

Clissitt, B and Gunter, J (2020) ‘Welcome to Paradise’, The Telegraph, Available at https://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/projects/welcome-to-paradise/ (Accessed: 1 December)

Ciacci, R (2018)’Banning the purchase of prostitution increases rape: evidence from Sweden’. Munich Personal RePEc Archive: Available at: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/100393/1/MPRA_paper_100393.pdf(Accessed: 1 December 2020)

prostitution-and-exploitation-prostitution (Accessed 5 December 2020)

Crown Prosecution Service (2019) ‘Violence Against Women and Girls’. Available at: https://www.cps.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/publications/cps-vawg-report-2019.pdf (Accessed December 3 2020)

Devlin, P (1965) ‘The morality of the criminal law’, p178-190, Available at: https://faculty.berea.edu/faculty/butlerj/Devlin.pdf (Date Accessed: 1 December 2020)

Hart, H. Wasserstrom,R (1971) Mortality and the Law, London:Wadsworth Publishing

House Affairs Committee, 2017. 'Prostitution'. London: House of Commons, p.8. Available at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmhaff/26/26.pdf (Accessed 5 December 2020)

Ministry of Justice (2013) ‘An Overview of Sexual Offending in England and Wales’ Home Office: London

Moen, Ole (2014) ‘Is prostitution harmful’, Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol.40 , No. 2 pp.76

Navés, A V, (6 March 2020) All about law. Available at: https://www.allaboutlaw.co.uk/commercial-awareness/legal-spotlight/prostitution-the-proposed-legal-models (Accessed: 2 December 2020)

Nordic Model Now (2020) Nordic Model Now Available at: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2019/01/13/prostitution-law-in-germany-regulation-for-taxation/ (Accessed: 1 December 2020)

Sexual Offences Act (2003), C.42. Available at: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/51A(Accessed: 29 November 2020)

Weitzer, R (2017) ‘Legal Prostitution: The German and Dutch Models’. In: Kleiman. M (ed.) Dual Markets: Comparative Approaches to Regulation. London: Springer, pp365-385.

]]> 2020-12-10 13:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1006031886 Interesting Sources That didn't make it into my final essay nmalekos1 https://padlet.com/nmalekos1/c3172nkgh39tw41l/wish/1006036463 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43282920?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=prostitution&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dprostitution&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-5187_SYC-5188%2Ftest&refreqid=fastly-default%3Add0e796a283e36bf821fceb93b03f14b&seq=1

https://www.gov.scot/publications/evidence-assessment-impacts-criminalisation-purchase-sex-review/pages/8/

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-introduces-unpopular-prostitution-law/a-39511761

https://www.researchgate.net/publication321065863_Legal_Prostitution_The_German_and_Dutch_Models

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/11/prostitution-legalised-sex-trade-pimps-women

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