ABSTRACT
As stated at the outset of the book, regulatory regimes have often been formulated with the most visible parts of the industry in mind, and concrete policies of course include much more than just the legal framework within which the activity occurs, and cover all ways in which governmental activities affect sex markets (social, medical, psychological and educational support): as pointed out in Kuo (2002), the failure to support legal prescriptions with real service provision is of particular concern to the feminist, as women have often been the recipients of progressive policy pronouncements that were never backed up with concrete policy commitments, which have been marginalised from spending decisions and left to the non-governmental sector (for an interdisciplinary perspective on the regulation of prostitution see Munro and Della Giusta, 2008).
