Dr. Kathryn McGarry:

That goes back to the point I made about the ambiguous concept of pimping. A number of the women had partners who were not working. Two of the men offered protection to the women. The man would stand at the top of a lane to offer protection and the woman would share her earnings with him at the end of the evening. In the eyes of the law, that would be regarded as pimping activity. None of the women spoke about having an independent person, with whom they were not in a relationship or friendly with, who controlled their work. Considerable ambiguity surrounds this issue and the definitions involved in it.

If every person was on the same page and we all wanted to eliminate prostitution through the law, the Swedish model is not the way to do it. It has counteractive effects in that regard.