Iceland puts the world's oldest trade out of business.

Iceland has passed a law making it illegal for a business to profit from the nudity of its employees; thus banning strip clubs and making prostitution illegal.

In case you didn't know, Iceland is run by a fiesty oul' lesbian granny called Joanna Sigurdardottir. In many ways, she is the archetypal feminist. This in itself is not a bad thing, however I feel that she is misguided with this legislation. Prohibition is never the answer, no matter how much we may dislike the vice in question.

Governments are not our mothers, or nannies, or indeed lesbian grandmothers. They should not decide what is good for the people or not. The choice of right and wrong must be made by each individual citizen. They should not ban the sale of alcohol, or drugs or sex even. People will always want these things, and they will find a way of procuring them. If prostitution is demonised and made illegal, the only result will be the the girls will have to work underground, where they are more likely to be preyed upon and where they will be most vulnerable.

Ironically, this piece of feminist legislation, designed to show that women are not for sale, will actually end up damaging those women who choose to sell themselves.