Prostitution should be decriminalised because men have twice the need for sex that women do, a free market think tank claims in a report published today.
\nMen\u2019s higher desire for sex means that the oldest profession can never be eliminated so it should be treated like any other job, the paper says. It also suggests that prostitution and erotic entertainment may \u201chelp to reduce sexual crime rates\u201d\u009d. The report says there are too few studies to conclude that the sex industry damages women.
\nCatherine Hakim, the report\u2019s author, said the laws on prostitution were outdated, misinformed and redundant in a world in which the internet had fundamentally changed sex lives.
\nDr Hakim, a sociologist, said: \u201cThe very concept of prostitution is no longer workable in today\u2019s world of fluid sexual markets, where anyone can meet anyone on whatever terms they choose. Decriminalisation is the only workable way forward.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n