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Kit MalthouseKit Malthouse (born 1966) is a British school councilman from the Westminster district. Malthouse who is a member of the Conservative Party has led a battle, for five years, to eliminate prostitution advertising in London. Mr. Malthouse who also is the owner of a financial firm, ran for Parliament twice, losing both times. Mr. Malthouse has been campaigning since 2000 for British laws to outlaw the use of telephone booths by prostitutes and brothels to advertise their services. He understands this practice is detrimental towards family values, since the telephone booths are, of course, public places that even children use. The problem that he has faced through his campaign is that prostitution itself is legal in England and Wales. Keeping a brothel or soliciting for sex are not. Because of this, brothels and individual prostitutes have resorted to posting photos with telephone contact information in phone booths. Mr. Malthouse's efforts have not gone without results: although British Telecom had begun collecting prostitution advertising cards from telephone booths as far back as 1996, police efforts to eradicate prostitution in Britain were raised after Mr. Malthouse began his campaign. Many pimps and prostitutes have answered Mr. Malthouse's phone booth ad cleaning campaign by changing their telephone services to cellular telephone companies, because, unlike BT, cellular telephone companies in England do not own telephone booths, therefore, they do not employ people to pick up prostitution advertisements at these public areas. Mr. Malthouse is also known for the tactics he uses to detract possible prostitution customers: one time, for example, he and some friends stood at the Oxford shopping district in London, handing out fake prostitution advertisement cards, which included female names, but listed the business telephone numbers of owners of cellular telephone companies as well as the companies' addresses instead.Many of the owners received calls from would be prostitute clients that day. On February 7, 2005, Mr. Malthouse was the subject of a Wall Street Journal article. Early that same year, he underwent surgery for unspecified reasons. Mr. Malthouse once said: "You have got to put your foot on the dustbin lid" when refering to his campaign against prostitution advertising. External Links Counselor Malthouse's page at the Conservative party's website Malthouse, Kit Malthouse, Kit
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