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Published Date: 04 September 2008
HARRIET Harman, Labour's deputy leader, has complained of "double standards" towards prostitution
after a government-commissioned survey found men were far more equivocal than women about the selling of sex.

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  • Last Updated: 04 September 2008 1:15 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Prostitution
 
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Randomly Blocked Poster, ,

04/09/2008 05:35:07
I don't agree with you therefor you have double standards! How very Harman.
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Samcafe,

Glasgow 04/09/2008 07:32:55
If Harriets agin it, am fur it
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The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 04/09/2008 14:45:17
So, does that mean that women are a) for selling sex or b) not? Far from clear! Because then you get feminists like Harridan jumping up and down to legalise prostitution to protect "sex workers" etc. So which one is it?

I think I can guess but it implies another set of double standards which Harperson would not like to admit!
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Matt there,

somewhere 04/09/2008 22:34:18
So, Ms Harman has noticed that men and women might {{GASP!}} have different views from each other! Shock! Horror! When will the madness end?

And was the survey concerned about the selling of sex by all sex industry workers? Male and female prostitutes? Gigolos? Or just women? Thus skewing the results?

I suspect the latter because people like Ms Harman quite like skewed results. As long as they are skewed in their favour...
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Brian Hill,

04/09/2008 23:36:37
I don't know about double standards but I do know we need a two pronged approach to prostitution.

1. We need to manage it properly for the safety of all concerned, to do that we must take the Dutch route of legalising it.

2. We must create a society where young women and young men don't feel they need to prostitute themselves in order to earn a decent living.

The second point is clearly a long term view and even when we achieve it there will still be those who wish to earn their living in the sex industry because they enjoy it and of course because there will always be a market for their services.

This might be hard for many people to accept but any other approach has been shown to be as much of a waste of time and resources as the so called 8 decade long war on drugs.
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im brian and so is my wife,

edinburgh 27/05/2009 01:47:21
ach soor face hasnt got it to be a lady of the night,mair like a creature of the night
wonder if she was nigels friend that night
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bluehead,

edinburgh 29/05/2009 11:18:10
harriet horrorman shoud shut her big gub,since she became a cabinet minister,she has became a pain in the neck,she acts more like a fully paid up member of the zombie club that all the labour goverment have become
what a stinking pile that lot have become!!!!!!

 

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