Firstly, the state has no right to tell consenting adults why then can or cannot have sex, whether it is for love, comfort, security, fun or even money. Far better to spend the time and resources on actually helping women trapped in bad circumstances.

Secondly. What is “trafficking”? The, in my view, extremist lobby groups pushing this idea have successfully managed to confuse this term with “sex-slave”, so now it has become a substitute for that term. Clearly this is not the case, most people, including women, who are “trafficked” not only want to be, but pay large sums to be smuggled across borders and there is little evidence that a majority of them are then forced into sexual slavery.

And finally the whole myth of trafficking has been deliberately blown out of all proportion to reality, partly by politicians who want more power, lobby groups whose power, influence and income depend on the perceived size of the problem and the media who love the salacious stories of “thousands of sex-slaves”. We have seen social services, lobby groups and the police declare that any foreign prostitute is “trafficked”, a sex-slave”, when that is not true. This stems from the extreme mindset which says no woman would choose to be a prostitute, so all prostitutes must be coerced.

Operation pentameter was a internationally coordinated police operation targeted at finding and freeing sex-slaves. In all the found 88 women in 22 countries, that is an average of 4 per country. During the world cup in Germany, the U.N. and several NGOs estimated that 50,000 women would be “trafficked” into Germany to service the visiting fans. The U.N. set up a task force with the German police and though they found plenty of foreign prostitutes they could only find 5 who were working against their will.

As for this law in Sweden, the government there are in denial, this law has made life much worse for the most vulnerable women. Those women who HAD to go out on the streets to work, still HAVE to do this, but now they must compete more for fewer clients, charge less, do things they would not otherwise have done and are less careful about avoiding dangerous situations.

Perhaps some of those proposing this law have good intentions, but they will just make matters worse. Why is the first choice of fools to ban and prohibit rather than to hold out an helping hand?

http://www.regjeringen.no/…/2004/0034/ddd/pdfv/232216-purchasing_sexual_services_in_sweden_and_the_nederlands.pdf -

So, from an implementation point of view, and thus also a fairness point of view, it is more or less insane, in addition to it being, as you say, arrogant (or more likiely, plain stupid).

However, they’ve seen that prostitution are legal in most of the world, and thus chosen to criminalise it in the rest of the world too. Not only are women unable to make decisions regarding their own body, most countries are too! Talk about arrogance…