 A gendered recommendation on rape by a state commission on sexual offences in 1976 evoked a remarkable consensus within both the women's movement and the parliamentary women's groups that eventually led to the demand for further inquiries including yet another prostitution commission.The resulting inquiry in 1981 was very controversial (internally and externally), concluding that prostitution was "not" a question of gender equality.They found that prostitution was declining and recommended that criminalisation would merely drive it underground and worsen stigmatisation.