<p>Police are only addressing the supply, but demand is what fuels the illicit sex trade, experts say. Newsday political reporter Bahar Ostadan has the story.</p>


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Cops arrested nearly 400 women working at illicit spas. They let the male customers go free.

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'If you don't address demand, you don't address the problem'

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