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A further comment made to Parliament has astounded many women with its absurdity, namely: “There is no evidence that predatory and abusive men have everhadtopretendto be anything else to carry out abusive and predatory behaviour.”
This has been the focus of our work for many years. While the language of our charitable aims, drawn from our Articles of Association, differs from the language of the National Outcomes, the two are broadly aligned.
We know that much of this activity is underground and not visible to many in society. We also know that, for many years, the attitude to prostitution was that the women were in the wrong or were unable to better themselves.