The senior Central Command official said the coercive practices were dropped because General Sanchez was not receiving requests to use most of them.

However, after coercive practices were banned, interrogators in Iraq saw an increase of 50 percent more high-value intelligence.

In addition, State Department officials maintain that coercive birth-control practices are now relatively rare in China.

But Mr. McNulty said, "I really don't see this as the kind of coercive practice being discussed."

For the proponents of the abolitionist view, prostitution is always a coercive practice, and the prostitute is seen as a victim.

China has been guilty of human rights abuses including torture, arbitrary detention, coercive family-planning practices and organ transplants from executed prisoners, the report said.

The coercive practices of these homes were detailed in The Girls Who Went Away.

They said it said many coercive practices were permissible if they met the narrow definition in the first memorandum.

Some leading attachement therapists have also specifically moved away from coercive practices.

For radical feminists this is because prostitution is always a coercive sexual practice.