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Includes persons agedunder 18 proceeded against for buying excisable liquor or consuming in a bar,or for contraventions of bye-laws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol indesignated places.4.
We spend a lot of time on that aspect in the ITIs. The issue is not only about buying in IP or considering whether one IP fits with another, but about asking whether there is a sustainable business model.
It simply moves from penalising the person who sells the sex to penalising the person who buys the sex, so there is no equality there.We should also consider the Swedish context.
We can legislate and use financial incentives, but the major task is to change people's buying habits. The plastic bag tax is a good example of something simple that has made a big difference.
On the other hand, men can choose freely whether to buy sex. What we need to address is the inequality between the women who sell sex and the men who buy it.
To be honest, if they are going to buy in those shops, they will not want to trudge all the stuff that they can buy there back to Birmingham when they can go to the Bullring and do the same.