Less than Half of Men Want Punishment for Buying Prostitution
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Less than half of men support criminalizing the purchase of sexual services, while the overwhelming majority of women support it. There are plans to toughen penalties in this area, but a criminologist says this could even put sellers in a more difficult or dangerous position.
A panel of experts at the Ministry of Justice, which is considering how to regulate prostitution, has compiled a report recommending that the solicitation of "buyers" should also be subject to punishment. The current Prostitution Prevention Law only penalizes "sellers," so this move to correct the imbalance in the law is highly significant. The Ministry of Justice will convene an extraordinary session of the National Diet on the 5th of next mon…
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