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Public consultation on the review of the operation of the law of the purchase of sexu

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  • #2
    iptba
    Registered Users Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭iptba


    The authors concluded that the sex trade “causes untold misery and harm” to very many of the women caught within it and that it “cannot be permitted to persist or expand”.

    They said the most effective way of doing this was to cut off demand.

    The research-backed laws, introduced in 2017, criminalising the purchase of sex – a law which is currently being reviewed by the Department of Justice.
    https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40084817.html
    The report, funded by the Department of Justice
    A study conducted by the Sexual Exploitation Research Programme in UCD said that on a typical day there were more than 650 people advertising their services on Escort Ireland, the country’s largest prostitution advertising platform – about a third of them outside urban areas.
    With a name like that, there seems like there might be a chance the commissioned researchers might be biased.
    I'm no expert on prostitution, but have heard before that there is some evidence that the Swedish model, which was adopted here, can cause extra problems for sex workers.


  • #3
    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,028 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    "They said the most effective way of doing this was to cut off demand."

    The stupidest sentence a human can ever utter. In order to "cut off demand", you'd need to basically cut off each and every man's testicles.

    Ireland's biggest issue is, arguably, an endemic-level prevalence of alcohol depenence among the population; Yet nobody in their right mind would propose to ban the production, import and sale of alcoholic beverages because it's a well known fact that it won't solve the issue, just push it underground - generating business for criminal organizations. No matter how high the fine, how bad the sentence on the customer, people will risk it - and in turn fatten the pocked of the local mobster. Prohibitionism worked beautifully in the US, afterall...

    Sexual trade is the exact same - legalize, regulate and tax - and the vast majority of the "exploitation" issues will be solved, not to mention allowing the workers much easier access to legal and medical protection. Also, sex workers aren't exclusively female, that's something that gets overlooked extremely often.


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