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A Plymouth MP says he wants to see a change in the law to punish customers for seeking out prostitutes.

South West Devon MP Gary Streeter is one of 20 moralist and religious politicians who formed a cross-party parliamentary group pontificating on prostitution and the global sex trade. Their aim was to put an end to the sex trade. He is ludicrously claiming that the majority of sex workers are trafficked or forced:

I realise there are some women who have chosen this as a career, and what goes on between consenting adults I am not too bothered about, but with the majority we are talking about very young women who often very vulnerable because of drugs and other factors, they end up in this industry they never chose to be in.

The law at the moment is very confusing, it's sending out different messages. The burden of criminality falls currently upon the woman who is the prostitute, not upon the person seeking her services.

What we are saying is we need the right balance. We are looking at tweaking the law so seeking sexual services for for payment becomes a criminal offence, that's the conclusion we came to.