Listen: Men Who Buy Sex Must Be Criminalised to Gain Gender Equality in Scotland

In an interview with 'The Steamie' politics podcast in March 2024, Ruth Maguire MSP details how the burden of criminality needs to be shifted off the women selling sex and onto the men buying sex. The MSP notes the government needs to criminalise men who buy sex in order to get true gender equality in Scotland.

Speaking to The Steamie politics podcast, Ms Maguire said: “At the moment in Scotland prostitution itself, the exchange of sexual services for money, is legal but the associated activities such as public soliciting, operating a brothel and pimping are criminal offences."

You can listen to full interview here or by clicking the picture below.