When she came to, her husband threw her and the children out of the house because she says he told her she was now "the soldiers' whore" and the children were "impure".

The new amendment also overturns Article 80 of the act which criminalized prostitutes but not their clients based on its unconstitutionality.

You talk about sustainable development, how about prostitutes?

Many drivers - strung out from the long desert slog - prefer to push through the night rather than staying in the seedy roadside inns that serve up young prostitutes as cheaply as mugs of millet beer.

The overwhelming majority of escorts, however, are at least open to the idea of trading sex for money, even though few would consider themselves prostitutes.