http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22369-2511021,00.html
David Aaronovitch
"I read an article by a former aide to David Blunkett, Katharine Raymond, who had been involved in the drawing-up in 2004 of a consultation document on prostitution, called Paying the Price. Clearly angry about the lack of reform initiated by the Government, Raymond pointed out approvingly that “in Australia and New Zealand, brothels are regulated in the same way as other businesses” and she called for pilot schemes for “managed areas”, as in the Netherlands, where sex workers could take their clients. I discovered experience in both Australia and Europe suggests that licensing schemes have failed to deliver the safe working environment that they set out to achieve”. In the Netherlands some managed areas were said to be working, while “others are being forced to close” because “the new policy forced all those who were unable to comply with the licensing regime on to the street”."
