A very obviously slanted article, the author's agenda is not hidden.

Quote Originally Posted by thir View Post
Is the fact that you do not see hookers on the street in Sweden a sign that they are not there?
Yeah, like you could see Prohibition was working because there were no bars.
Or have they gone underground, with even less protection from the police?
That would be my first guess. As for abolishing prostitution, I'll believe that when they abolish gravity. The most extreme police states never managed it, and with all its faults, Sweden isn't anywhere near that.
Are all prostitutes really forced?
Didn't you know, all the ones who talk to journos and write online about how they chose the life and like it, are just paid agents of the masculinist conspiracy. So says Dworkin, and who of us dare argue?

Trafficking is a tragedy, but it's a gift to the anti-sex faction. With a few simple verbal tricks they can make all prostitutes victims and all clients abusers. The fact that they don't honestly care about the victims is shown by how little attention they give to the trafficked girls' fates once they are found and deported.
Will such a law stop trafficking?
It'll certainly stop the attempts to persuade clients to blow the whistle on brothels they believe have captive girls, something that's doing some good here in the UK. As with Prohibition, making the customers criminals makes them allies of the real criminals.