"In a perfect world everything that you say makes a lot of sense."

No Jacqui, my words only make sense in an *imperfect* world.

"..Unfortunately we live in the real world, where the money to put into practice your ideas is NEVER going to be made available, no matter how much we want it, as governments will always find other ways to use it and the general population will squeal if they have to pay more taxes to get it..."

It actually would take very *little* money to put those ideas into practice, other than having thousands more teachers, and a huge amount of new schoools, all of which were run with a brand new philosophy. The money that would be saved by Governments in once again leaving it to teachers to teach, would be enormous. The money saved on trying to rescue this deeply broken society would be far, far greater.

If we, the population, are content to sit back and do nothing then of course, nothing will ever change. We are the engine that drives the machine..and if enough of us stand together to demand the machine is driven in a very different way, then you may be amazed at what might happen.

"This is not a new phenomenon"

*Never* have our children been so sexualised, as they now are. *Never* have parents had so much pressure on them. It is way past time to stop worrying and way into time to be doing something.

"...but there are always going to be the unfortunates who will not have good parental guides and who will, for whatever reason, find themselves in a situation where selling their bodies seems to be the only option that they have. I wish it were not so, but wishing won't make it so...

Exactly. So maybe it's time to stop wishing and change things right around. No woman should *ever* have to sell her body, unless she specifically has chosen to do that.

"..In those circumstances it would surely be preferable that the working conditions for these people were made as safe and secure as was possible..."

Emotionally, I doubt they will ever be safe, or secure, for every night they go to sleep knowing that the next day there will be yet more strangers inside their body, outside their body, all over their body. What dreams do they have? Are they merely to be labelled 'legalised sex workers' and just left to get on with it, but in a safer environment? Is there never to be any hope of a system coming into being which will say to them:

"If you want it, then let this be your life! Let us help you, care for you, whilst you learn, whilst you begin to really live your life, in a way you may have once dreamed about, before all this happened. Let us inspire you, find a different way of life for you, give you back your pride. Let us show you that *someone* cares about you."


If Everyone Cared - People Make Changes, not Governments
(you need to watch the end, in particular)

"DO NOT WAIT FOR LEADERS. DO IT ALONE. PERSON TO PERSON" - Mother Theresa