The Swiss government has amended the criminal code to make it illegal to pay for sex with 16 and 17-year-old prostitutes.

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F%ç"*ing 3rd world country!!

funny how it's illegal to build minarets before it's illegal to hire a 16 year old prostitute...

maybe it's because they were erecting minarets of a different kind, cough cough.

what am i going to do on the weeknds now

I have a feeling it won't solve the problem, though. Rather drive it underground.

Even those countries that have had such a law in place have the problem but it's just harder to control.

LiB: Rather than Switzerland being the third world country I rather think it's the perpetrators of this industry that come from such backgrounds/mentalities.

There was a repugnant case recently in the UK with a ring of men targeting white girls and operating quite freely under a reign of fear and intimidation for years.

A quick dismissal that the new law has brought Switzerland out of "third world status" is a bit short-sighted.

If there wouldn't be a market for it, then there would not be laws against it. The fact that this just recently became illegal clearly underlines my aforementioned comment.

But now there is a law, do you think that the market will dry up overnight?

Do you think in countries where the law is already in existence, underage prostitution no longer exists?

Certainly not, but at least there are means to battle and prosecute such practices. Once again, Switzerland is stuck behind the cow, whilst many other countries have already abolished such practices. The same goes with the smoking laws, the domestic violence laws etc. Sure one can boast about a "save" living etc. when half of the stuff going down is not reported and the other half is not even considered a crime in this country.

The law won't stop it happening. But it might make it easier to do something about it when it gets reported.

However, the recent cases in the UK have been known for years but the authorities were very slow to move against it. There were also similar reports from Holland. The problem is not so much a lack of laws but a lack of will to address it.

May I refer you to another thread where the mob is calling somebody who criticised that a nazi and asking for him to be lynched.

Interesting that no other news sources mention this new law.

Tom

It's the local - check the press clippings from the last few days..

16 is the current age of sexual consent in Switzerland. That will now probably change, i.e. sex between 16 and 18 will only be legal if you don't get paid for it (or pay for it).

In most of the USA sex is officially illegal, but escort services are advertising very visibly. Of course it's legal because you don't pay with money, but I'm sure they have other ways of paying. So the whole law is pointless really.

Tsk tsk. You said the "n" word. I'm telling

Sorry, but looking at from a marketing perspective: Is the market really looking for underage prostitutes or are the customers in Switzerland simply looking for young girls? In other words: Will they care if the girl is 17 vs 18? And if they are - are they willing to take the risk of breaking the law for that one year age difference? I bet the vast majority is not... they simply went to legal and official brothels where up to now some 16 and 17yr olds worked and from now on it will only be 18 plus... sure, there will be some illegal prostitution. There always has been and there always will be - but this does not mean that there should not be laws in place to protect underage girls.

Here in Singapore did we lately have a case where the cops found out that a girl worked as a prostitute before she turned 18: They managed to get the customer files from her employer and some really high level gentlemen face some very serious charges now - including a Swiss manager of a certain Swiss bank with three letters. Lets see if the Swiss will extradict him...

Will there be a final sale period before the law comes into effect?

She (or her employer) kept files on her customers?
Are you sure she wasn't a lawyer or something?
Hourly rates of both professions are similar and they both screw customers so I can see where the confusion may come from.

Maybe she was but was to embarrassed to admit it so she lied and pretend she had an honest job?