Australian laws which determine the circumstances in which prostitutes (mainly women) provide sexual services to clients (mainly men) reflect the dominance of a masculine idealogy of women's sexuality. According to this idealogy, prostitution is necessary, indeed inevitable, because men's sex drive cannot be repressed. Women, on the other hand, who violate the masculine ideal of female chastity by becoming prostitutes must be stigmatized and punished for such deviance. Law and law enforcement, however, do little to diminish the extent of prostitution: they only determine the shape of the prostitution industry and the methods by which prostitutes ply their trade.