Penalization of prostitution clients in France: ten years later, has the law changed anything?
A decade after France passed a law criminalising the purchase of sexual services, authorities insist they are taking a tough approach to prostitution networks.
Adopted on 13 October 2016, after intense debate, the law punishes clients of sex workers with fines of €1,500 and up to €3,500 for repeat offences.
The 2016 law also decriminalised soliciting and set up support for people to leave prostitution.
Ten years on, however, habits have changed. Once highly visible in public spaces, prostitution has shifted to private locations – short-term rental flats or hotel rooms – organised via online platforms, making it difficult for authorities to identify clients breaking the law.
“Clients are ordinary men,” the Central office for the fight against human trafficking, OCRETH noted. “Clients are of all ages and from all social backgrounds.”
Claire Quidet, spokesperson for the Mouvement du Nid, a sex worker advocacy group, points to the low number of sanctions against clients, and their uneven distribution around France: only 11,000 acts have been penalised, and 60 percent of them in the Paris region.
“Victims are increasingly invisible. They are regularly moved, from one week to the next, from one city to another, one apartment to another, to evade authorities, neighbours or associations,” Lénaïg Le Bail, former head of the OCRETH, told the French AFP news agency.
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