Society should have structures in place to assist prostitutes but regulation is unlikely to be the solution, experts say.

Prostitution had always been a no-win situation, former European Court of Human Rights judge Giovanni Bonello told Times of Malta.

Dr Bonello was approached following comments by Labour deputy leader Toni Abela and lawyer Edward Gatt in favour of regularising prostitution to protect sex workers.

Sometimes, the remedies proposed ended up being more problematic than the phenomenon they attempted to address, Dr Bonello said.

“If we take our neighbour, Italy, whose mores and traditions are quite similar to ours, we come across trends opposite to those being now proposed in Malta.”

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