Well, the key point now is that purchasing is an illegal offense.
A lot of the laws around children have also been tightened up, including doubling the term, from five to ten years, for purchasing sex from a child. Which obviously no one in their right mind can argue against in theory. It's a good thing.
However in practice, in making laws against some of these practices and making things more punishable or more clear, it does seem to open up other grey areas, and definite safety problems.
For instance, asked point blank on whether two teenaged prostitutes staying with each other (to keep each other safe) could be punished for encouraging sex with kids, MacKay answered yes it's possible they could.
It's things like this which make it apparent it's going to have the reverse effect of what the government says it wants (if that's in fact what it wants, which I'm beginning to seriously question) in keeping women and girls safe.
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