apps, 66.2 per cent) had the age limit of 17 years. * “Chatting applications” offer 1:1 conversation services and video conversation services. “Random chatting applications” offer conversation or messaging services with unspecified individuals . 53. In the ｢2016 Fact-finding Survey on Prostitution｣, 107 adolescents under 19 years of age who experienced prostitution and ran away from home (61.8 per cent) responded that they had experienced the “conditional dating” out of total 173 respondents. Among these, 70.7 per cent of adolescents went to the “conditional dating” after they had ran away from home, and 51.4 per cent of them experienced it while still enrolled in schools. The most common reason for the “conditional dating” was to find a place to go and sleep (29 per cent), and the “condition” was money (87.9 per cent) in most cases. The adolescents who went on the “conditional dating” experienced both physical and psychological damages (65.4 per cent), which include (multiple responses allowed); buyers paying less money than promised (72.9 per cent), buyers’ refusal to use condoms (62.9 per cent), and unwanted pregnancies or having sexually transmitted diseases (48.6 per cent). Half of the respondents (48.6 per cent) did not seek support due to various reasons, which include; the fear of other people finding out about the “conditional dating” and of potential punishment against themselves. These adolescents also responded that stronger punishment (49.1 per cent) and tough investigation and punishment of illegal ‘random chatting applications’ (12.7 per cent) were needed in order to combat “conditional dating” with youth. 54. In the above-mentioned survey, the number of prostituted women in 42 concentrated places of prostitution was 4,402 and among those, 75.6 per cent of women were aged 30 or older. Among the 174 prostituted women who responded in the survey, 47.7 per cent of them first entered into the sex industry in their 20s, however, 21.8 per cent of them started when they were teenagers. Ten of these prostitution victims, in the in-depth interviews, responded that they started prostitution due to economic difficulties and that they were currently suffering mental health problems including depression and forced to take various injections and weight loss pills. Question 55. The “Nordic Model” from Northern European countries such as Sweden argues that the 17