Sex purchase criminalization
This week channel 3 (or 4) made a story about fin police attitude about this new law proposition. They thought it would only bring things more difficult for them, if buying sex would be illegal. Business would go more and more underground and no chance for them to find real criminals as easy as before.
Big HURRAH for Finland's police force; they are not as stupid as some feminists sitting on their large arses in fin parliament.
My humble and honest opinion:
Son of a Sun
Sex trade disappears from downtown Helsinki
After Nightclub Mikado, one of the most well-known places for picking up a prostitute in Helsinki, was closed last December, the sales of sex services disappeared from the streets of the city centre. Street prostitution is not reported to have increased in other parts of the city, either.
However, the availability of paid sex services in Helsinki has not disappeared anywhere. Prostitutes have just largely moved off into the restaurants in the district of Punavuori.
Both Jaana Kauppinen of the Prostitute Counselling Centre Pro-Tukipiste and Anna Kontula of SALLI - United Sex Professionals of Finland, report that prostitution has spread to a larger number of restaurants in Helsinki during recent months.
An increasing number of sex workers can be found in a nightclub called Punavuoren Soho. According to some Finnish newspapers, the former managing director of the company that owned Restaurant Mikado bought Soho in January. At that point the place started attracting prostitutes and clients.
However, according to information gathered by Helsingin Sanomat, the ownership cannot be confirmed.
From HS magazine 27.2.2006