This last point became a target of those who believed they were being sent back to the conditions that made them leave in the first place.
This influence has waned under the security agenda of the succeeding right-wing governments, but is still evident in the new political thinking, as stated in 's 2002 report to the Delegation on Women's Rights on prostitution in which she echoes the left wing sentiment that the purchase of sex constitutes violence.
Very few of these constructed prostitution as a legitimate form of work.