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(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – A large majority of people in Spain back a proposal that would make prostitution a regular occupation, according to a poll by Instituto Noxa published in La Vanguardia. 76 per cent of respondents support regularizing prostitution, while 17 per cent oppose it.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – A large majority of people in Spain back a proposal that would make prostitution a regular occupation, according to a poll by Instituto Noxa published in La Vanguardia. 76 per cent of respondents support regularizing prostitution, while 17 per cent oppose it.
While prostitution in Spain is not illegal, owning or running a brothel has been illegal since 1956.
The Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)—a Catalan nationalist party—is proposing that prostitution be regularized across Spain, in order to offer protection to voluntary sex workers and combat illicit human trafficking organizations. The ERC has also put forward a bill that would ban all ads selling prostitution in print publications. ERC lawmaker Joan Tardà has called the ads "disgusting" and said that they "denigrate women."
Last month, Tardà declared: "Regulating is the only way to guarantee social and labour rights to the people that practice it [prostitution], bring them back from the fringes. (…) It will also make it easier to track crime associated with it."
Polling Data
Would you support or oppose regularizing prostitution?
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Support |
76% |
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Oppose |
17% |
Source: Instituto Noxa / La Vanguardia
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 2,000 Spanish adults, conducted from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, 2009. Margin of error is 2.24 per cent.
