Sold for sex

Guardian In Croydon 84% women sold for sex are were from overseas, most of them trafficked.

Many men consider buying sex as just another form of shopping, but their attitude is fuelling the trafficking of women to work in the trade.

Denise Marshall, chief executive of the Poppy Project, a campaign to get women out of prostitution, says: "Banning ads is a half measure. We need to follow the Swedish model of criminalising the act of buying or attempting to buy sexual services. If you are going to ban ads you are going to have to ban buying."

The Western Mail has adverts for massage thinly disguied adverts of women for asale for sex.