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Hundreds protest anti-prostitution plans in Paris

By REUTERS

JULY 8, 2012 00:38

PARIS - Hundreds of people including sex workers protested in Paris on Saturday against plans to make soliciting prostitution illegal, criticizing a minister's drive to eradicate the practice of paying for sex as counter-productive.

France's minister for women's rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, caused a stir in late June by saying she would seek to make prostitution disappear by punishing those who pay for sex, rather than the prostitutes themselves.

The Socialist politician was backed by prominent feminists and allies in government, but her remarks unleashed a hail of criticism from sex workers' unions, which argued that punishing clients would drive business underground, endangering prostitutes.

At Place Pigalle in the heart of Paris' red-light district, dozens of sex workers chanted pro-prostitution slogans through loudspeakers and waved signs that read "Penalized clients = murdered prostitutes" and "Sex work is work too."

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