Clients warned that paying for sex with trafficked women is rape.

The UK home office has launched a poster campaign with the stark warning “Walk in a punter, walk out a rapist.” The posters will be piloted in men’s toilets in Westminster and Nottingham. This is latest attempt by the UK government to tackle demand for trafficked women, by raising doubts in the minds of men who use prostitutes, as to whether the women they have sex with are there of their own free will. “Trafficking is a vile and evil trade and sex buyers must be made to think twice about the consequences of their actions,” said home office minister Vernon Coaker.

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