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"Mr President, we have naturally supported Mrs Klamt’s report because of our desire and our duty to protect our children and everyone else in an extremely vulnerable position. The report is also a good text in that respect.
However, after the speeches other Members have made about the necessary and legitimate condemnation of child prostitution, those who organise it and those who make use of it, I want to talk about the general phenomenon of prostitution. In the wake of Mrs Gröner and Mrs Roure, who tackled this phenomenon, I want to mention the upsurge in prostitution in Strasbourg and Brussels during this Parliament’s part-sessions. Of course, our institution as such is not responsible for this evil. All the same, the coincidence is distressing.
Tolerating prostitution, closing one’s eyes to the shop windows, right here in Brussels, where prostitutes are on show like so much merchandise, as if this were a commercial activity which could be listed in a trading register, is ignoble and also irresponsible on the part of elected representatives responsible for the welfare of the community. We can hardly be surprised that certain individuals, at best psychologically weak, at worst deliberately criminal, lose all their moral principles and commit reprehensible acts not because of any geographic remoteness or cultural difference, but because, in their own countries, those moral principles have disintegrated.
It is not just children’s human dignity that must be defended, even though their natural vulnerability justifies our affording them major protection. That dignity must be defended and promoted for each and every one of us. If dignity does not belong to everyone then it ceases to exist. The struggle against the scourge of prostitution will only be really effective when we stop talking about ourselves in one way and about other people in another way, and when we apply to ourselves the principles and measures we legitimately want to see applied elsewhere.
Selling one’s body to survive is often the outcome of a desperate situation which we must remedy by ambitious policies to develop and support charitable organisations involved in bringing up children. Exploiting that economic and social misery, as pimp or client, is a criminal act and that is how we must approach it. The Klamt report is perhaps not sufficiently ambitious, but at least it has the merit of going in the right direction."@en1
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