Escort Advertising: Industry Facts
Ireland is a very profitable, safe and friendly country for escorts to work in.
For many years, ladies from all over the UK have been travelling to Ireland to work as escorts, because of the very favourable conditions that exist for female escorts in Ireland.
You do occasionally hear stories about the Irish escort business having some nasty criminal elements in it, but most of these stories are just the propaganda of people who would like to see less escorts visiting Ireland (Quite often because they run a lousy Irish escort service themselves, so trying to scare off all the competition seems to be the only way for them to succeed!). Of course there are some unsavoury characters in the Irish escort business and of course you should always take sensible precautions when moving in this industry, in the interest of maintaining your own safety, security and well being, but Ireland is not a dangerous place to work as an escort. It is actually one of the safest places in the world you could work as an escort we think.
The Republic of Ireland has seen massive economic growth over the last 10 years. The initial boom years were 1996 - 2001 and this was when we first came to start hearing the expression "Celtic Tiger" being used across the world to describe Ireland's phenomenal economic success. In this period disposable income soared to record levels enabling a huge rise in consumer spending. The global economic downturn of 2001 did slow things down for a couple of years, as you would expect, but, by 2003, the Irish economy was racing ahead again and economists were talking of the "Celtic Tiger II". All this has of course been great for the Irish escort business.
Ireland's "Celtic Pussy" as it is often fondly dubbed in the Irish escort business has not been the only dramatic change in the Irish escort industry in recent years. Over the last 5 years, the Irish escort business has changed from being an industry that employed mainly Irish and UK females to being a very international one, with ladies from lots of different countries now working as escorts in Ireland. This change occurred as part of the overall globalisation of the escort business that has gone on in recent years, but it hasn't negatively impacted on the profitability of escorting in Ireland as it has in many parts of the world. Escorting in the UK has been negatively effected by an influx of foreign workers. Prices have dropped there. This hasn't happened in Ireland though, because of a number of important differences that exist. Notably, Ireland is not flooded with cheap sex services like massage parlours, saunas and working flats, as the UK is. These types of services do not exist in Ireland at all and hence the Irish escort industry faces no competition from these types of industries. The strict laws surrounding advertising in Ireland benefit escorts here too. Whereas in parts of the UK it seems every newspaper and magazine is full of cheap sex adverts, in Ireland, Escort-Ireland.com basically is adult personal services advertising, and we don't want to see Ireland flooded with cheap sex workers at the expense of high-quality escort service providers.
The escort business is going from strength to strength in Ireland today. The latest UK research suggests the number of men paying women for sex has doubled in the last 10 years. One in 10 of the 11,000 men asked in a nationwide survey in 2000 said he used prostitutes, compared with one in 20 in 1990. This information was published for the first time in 2005 in the journal, Sexually Transmitted Infections. Commenting on this rapid uptake in the use of prostitution services, Dr Helen Ward, lead author of the report, cited increasing availability of commercial sex through the Internet as a major factor. The first ever nationwide survey of the sex lives, attitudes and behaviour of the Irish was carried out in 2005. The survey, which did deal with the isssue of prostitution, involved questioning 7,500 people. It was commissioned by the Health Promotion Unit of the Department of Health and the Crisis Pregnancy Agency and carried out by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). Its findings are to be released in 2006.
