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Women in prostitution 'controlled'

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The government is proposing a new law which would criminalise the act of paying for sex with someone who is "controlled for another person's gain". Ruth Alexander, a reporter for BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme, has been looking at questions surrounding prostitution, and discusses whether claims that 80% of women in prostitution are "controlled by their drug dealer, their pimp, or their trafficker" are reliable.

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