UK - A Liberal Democrat councillor said schools could suggest prostitution as a career choice for pupils, at a party conference. Dennis Parsons, chairman of the Cheltenham Lib Dems, made the off-hand suggestion at a special session in Brighton on sex work. The father-of-five said school career advisors are currently not allowed to mention prostitution as a line of work, then added: "Why shouldn’t they?" He also compared prostitution to accountancy in a debate to combat the stigma attached to sex work. Mr Parsons said: "The fact that we are asking ‘should we seek to prevent people entering sex work?’ is part of the problem. You wouldn’t ask the question ‘should we prevent people becoming accountants?’ You’d just take it for granted."