Croatia plans to fine clients of prostitutes
Current legislation in the Balkan state already outlaws prostitution, but only sex workers have been prosecuted, not their clients.
Attempts by some liberal groups to legalize prostitution have never been seriously considered in the strongly Roman Catholic country, which is due to join the European Union next July.
The bill proposed by the centre-left government on Thursday would set fines of up to 10,000 Croatian kunas ($1,700) for both buyers and sellers of sex. The current fine for prostitutes is only 800 kunas.
The law would also impose fines of up to 5,000 kunas for people who have sex or expose themselves in public places.
The average monthly salary in Croatia, which has been struggling with recession since 2009, is around $970.
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The biggest problem of any human being is his or her imagination and when one fail to control his or her imagination it explode like a bomb and then he or she not only hurt oneself but also hurt other people’s life too. A human being has countless faces and nobody know what the true one is. Sex is nothing but internal immunity system that helps a man or a woman when something bad happen internally. But the curiosity of man compels him to venture more and more and during these ventures he breaks a lot of hearts and sometime his heart break. Bad attitudes of any man force other people to return him same attitudes and thus human confrontations take place. When a woman face such attitudes she try her best to cope with them and when fail pour all her anger and poison in next generations. After a few generations such societies become ungovernable, and then Almighty send someone to make and enforce law.