 While maintaining that this was not about "women's" sexuality, the supporters of the bill claimed that women should control their own bodies, and that this was about "men's" access to women's bodies.Feminists and women's movements had carried out considerable lobbying for criminalising purchase, but in the end, it was the women's groups within the parliamentary parties that were responsible for the success of the legislation, crossing and even defying their own party lines.However, this was not as homogeneous as is sometimes perceived.