{"id":54009,"date":"2013-11-26T20:51:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=54009"},"modified":"2013-11-26T20:51:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:51:57","slug":"prostitution-france-wants-to-punish-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=54009","title":{"rendered":"Prostitution: France Wants to Punish Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/france-prostitution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54007\" alt=\"\u0574\u0561\u0580\u0576\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0573\u0561\u057c\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/france-prostitution.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/france-prostitution.jpg 415w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/france-prostitution-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s government is pushing one of Europe&#8217;s toughest laws against prostitution and sex trafficking, and other countries are watching closely. Advocates hope that a draft French law going to parliament Wednesday will help change long-held attitudes toward the world&#8217;s oldest profession \u2014 by punishing the customer and protecting the prostitute.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, however, is facing resistance in a country with a libertine reputation and a Mediterranean macho streak, and has prompted petitions defending those who buy sex. Signatories include screen icon Catherine Deneuve \u2014who played a prostitute in the cult film &#8220;Belle de Jour&#8221; \u2014 and crooner Charles Aznavour.<\/p>\n<p>Prostitution is currently legal in France, but brothels, pimping and soliciting in public are illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed law would introduce a 1,500-euro ($2,000) fine \u2014rising to 3,000-euro at the second offense\u2014 for the clients of prostitutes. They could also be forced to attend classes aimed at highlighting the harms of prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed law \u2014written by a group of lawmakers from both right and left and backed by the Socialist government\u2014 follows the example of Sweden, which passed similar legislation in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>A report commissioned by the Swedish government showed that the number of people involved in street prostitution in Sweden&#8217;s three largest cities dropped from around 730 in 1999 to 300-430 a year in the 10 years after that. At the same time, street prostitution in neighboring Norway and Denmark increased.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the French draft law argue that it could reduce sex trafficking and empower prostitutes.<\/p>\n<p>And earlier this month, a petition emerged, signed by 60 celebrities, including Deneuve and Aznavour, saying: &#8220;Without supporting or promoting prostitution, we reject the penalization of those who prostitute themselves and those who buy their services, and we ask for a real debate without ideological prejudice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; France&#8217;s government is pushing one of Europe&#8217;s toughest laws against prostitution and sex trafficking,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":54007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[4329,1268],"class_list":["post-54009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-clients","tag-france","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}