Cote - you might be interested in pages 24 - 29 of the Scottish report. They look at what would deter men from using prostitutes (and give a punter's perspective).
www.prostitutionresearch.com/ChallengingDemandScotland.pdf
"Those advocating legalisation ? like many of the punters interviewed for this research ? assumed that men were not capable of attaining sexual continence. They therefore sought contexts (prostitution) in which men could buy sex ? assuming incorrectly that legal prostitution is disease-free prostitution and that legal prostitution would preserve men?s sexual health..."
Sexual continence is my new favourite expression I think WRT prostitution.
"At the time of this writing (March 2008) there have been calls for both the Scottish and the UK governments to adopt the Swedish model to prevent and combat prostitution and trafficking. Acknowledging the enormous social injustice and harms intrinsic to prostitution, the Swedish legislation criminalises punters, pimps and traffickers. Those who are bought for prostitution
are understood by the Swedish Parliament to be victims regardless of whether or not they were overtly physically coerced or whether they were emotionally coerced by prior sexual assault, abandonment, brainwashing by pimps or whether they were coerced by a sexist or racist lack of job alternatives, or coerced into prostitution by poverty.
While those buying and selling sex are
arrested, women in prostitution are not criminalised in Sweden. Instead, they are offered social services similar to those offered by the Routes Out Project in Glasgow (Bindel, 2004).
Swedish police statistics indicate that there has been a dramatic decline in prostitution since the law went into effect. ?We have significantly less prostitution than our neighboring countries,? a Stockholm police officer stated. (Anwar, 2007) Two years after the Swedish law?s passage, a government taskforce reported that there was a 50% decrease in the number of women prostituting and a 75% decrease in the number men who bought sex. According to the Swedish National Rapporteur on Trafficking the law that prohibits the purchase of sexual services has ?a direct and positive effect in limiting the trafficking in human beings for sexual purposes to
Sweden? (Ekberg, 2004).
Laws affect cultural practices. The Swedish law has a social impact on the way prostitution is viewed by its citizens. The 1999 Swedish law ? is a concrete and tangible expression of the belief that in Sweden women and children are not for sale. It effectively dispels men?s self assumed right to buy women and children for prostitution.? (Ekberg, 2004).
In addition to imposing serious legal consequences on men?s purchase of sex, we at the same time need to increase the public?s understanding of why prostitution is harmful in and of itself, and to ensure that prostitution is regarded as predatory and sexually exploitative behaviour rather than sexual behaviour. Ultimately, the effectiveness of any criminal justice program
depends on the community?s understanding of the issues and its commitment to justice for prostituted women and children. Its success also depends on the willingness of police
departments to enforce laws that have been passed (Moe, 2007).
Additional research on men who buy sex is needed. Because of their need to minimise the
harms of prostitution and thereby justify its existence, and because of the punters? desire for social invisibility, we are confident that the statistics in this Report are conservative and are likely underestimates of, for example, the men?s frequency of using prostitutes, their violence, and their misogyny.
Using this report, and additional information from this research database, prostitution prevention programmes, including some aimed specifically at young men in schools and colleges, can be initiated. We remain cautiously optimistic regarding men?s capacity for change."
That sounds to me like "where there is a will, there is a way".