France is the only country in the world where you can complain to your wife that your mistress doesn't understand you.

things sexual.

The problem is, open sollicitation on the streets has become so rife that it interferes with normal pedestrians and businesses.

In some 'hot' areas, you can barely push your way through the ladies walking the pavement. It's like the metro at rush hour.

That's the rub!

apparently they are attempting to make all of it illegal, not just pimps and child abusers.

Open the whorehouses and tax them like any other retail establishment.

They seem to be, however, catching the Dutch disease-- fear and trembling at the pointy fingers of the new European morals police decrying sexual freedom. (Other freedoms are in danger, too.)

flagrant street walking in certain districts.

I swear, you can't even pass on the sidewalk. And, it makes walking there very unpleasant for other females who aren't plying a trade.

Just like pay-day lenders.

I suppose it's misguided feminists teaming up with the far-right to pass a Nordic-model-like law, as they are trying to do in Canada.

http://theconversation.com/the-nordic-model-of-prostitution-law-is-a-myth-21351

Do what you need to do to stop pimps, trafficking, rape, and child exploitation. You have my full support on that. But honestly, I don't give a royal fuck what CONSENTING ADULTS are doing in their bedrooms. And furthermore, anti-prostitution laws like this also only attack the poor. If a politician or wealthy businessman is buying sex, you know damn well they won't be caught or prosecuted.

flagrant street sollicitation in some Paris neighbohoods has got completely out of hand.

You can hardly push your way through them on the sidewalk, which make it very uncomfortable for other people (especially women) to continue on their way.