Norway gets tough on sex buyers...

As Norway rings in the new year it will introduce a new law making the purchase - but not the sale - of sex a criminal act, threatening even to put Norwegians who buy sex abroad behind bars. 

'We think buying sex is unacceptable because it favours human trafficking and forced prostitution,' Deputy Justice Minister Astri Aas-Hansen told AFP. 

Street prostitution has become ever more visible in Norwegian cities in recent years, with prostitute support organisations estimating the country of just 4.6 million people counts as many as 3,000 sex workers. 

The new law, which is modelled on similar legislation in Sweden, aims to clean up the streets and protect the prostitutes by outlawing the buying of sex, but not the sale. More...

See also:

1. Australia: pregnant woman selling herself as a "pregnancy fetish." Sad...
2. Switzerland: teenage prostituition on the rise...
3. Prostitutes become addicted to ... prostituition???
4. Man to wife at brothel: "what are you doing here?"