>Just remembered the news from the other day - sorry, Google keeps serving me with USA sources, can't find a local - about the serial killer who killed prostitutes.
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>Amazingly, google search on "prostitute serial killer news" gives about 1.7 million hits, but if you try "prostitute customer serial killer news" you get only about 137000. Looking deeper into the matter, I found about the missionary serial killers, whereas the two typical groups of victims are prostitutes and minority groups. There's one and only one case of one who targeted customers, but the killer was a prostitute herself, ergo an exception.
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>Since most of such killers think that prostitution is evil per se and needs to be swiped off the face of the planet, I wonder where do they get the idea that the source of the trouble is on the supply side. Could it be something they learn from their environment?
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>Also, in any movie where I saw a brothel raid, they arrest the working class and the customers get as much as a slap on the wrist. Why do they get the preferential treatment? They were a party in the same trade.
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>If prostitution is bad (which I agree with, though probably for different reasons than the most), wouldn't the simplest way to make it vanish be to cut the demand? With no market, this industry wouldn't exist. Is there any religion around here which tries to use this approach?
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I doubt it matters much. You can attack the supply or the demand side, but all that will happen is that the transaction will be driven further underground, making it both more dangerous and more expensive. When there are enough people demanding and enough people supplying, I don't think there is any practical way to stop the transactions. The only real hope imho is to legitimise it, regulate it, and tax it.

I'm having trouble coming up with any frowned upon area of society in which there is willing supply and willing demand, where any attempts to stop it have been successful.

>And, on the same subject, in divorce cases, does purchase of sexual services constitute adultery?

Sorry, no idea. My guess would be 'probably'.