And the downturn is has shown effect in the entire nation, what with Australia's 1.22 billion dollars prostitution industry coming on the verge to shrink by 6 per cent to 1.15 billion dollars next financial year.
Butler said the biggest blow would come to workers, mainly single mums and students.
He also said that the demand for sex services tended to stay stable but sex worker incomes would keep falling.
He said: "It's a vice industry, like alcohol and tobacco. People behave like it's a necessity as opposed to a luxury service.
"What happens when you've got a period like now is that people take their business from their mid-range providers to the cheaper providers, whether they are legal or not . . ."
Source-ANI
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