Oireachteas has recommended criminalisation of Sex clients

[Hagane00]

Morning Edition right now.

According to the guest who is on now, the committee has recommended that purchasers of sex will be crimanilised.

Lets hope the Dail has more sense!!!

[WatWatWat]

I always wanted to be classed as a criminal for something cool. Like a massive bank robbery, or stealin the crown jewels. . . This is a bit lame.

[justfrank44]

I always wanted to be classed as a criminal for something cool. Like a massive bank robbery, or stealin the crown jewels. . . This is a bit lame.

Well , it has been said that the way you have sex is criminal

[samlad]

It's live here:

http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/...r/daileireann/

(Fifth window up from the bottom)

[dob]

http://www.kildarestreet.com/tds/

I suggest that the sex workers of ei have good look at the mug shots in the above link. If you have seen them in a professional capacity I suggest you lobby them to have a bit of cop on and not bring in this stupid law

[samlad]

-Press release and downloadable report:

http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/...-17366-en.html

[samlad]

Other legal reforms recommended by the Committee are:

• increased penalties for trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation;
• increased penalties for organising or living off the earnings of prostitution;
• an offence of recklessly permitting a premises to be used for the purposes of prostitution;
• the regulation and inspection of premises advertised as massage parlours so as to eliminate those used for prostitution;
• witnesses in cases dealing with sexual exploitation through prostitution and/or trafficking to give evidence anonymously;
• an offence of grooming a child or vulnerable person for the purpose of sexual abuse or exploitation;
• power for An Garda Síochána to have disabled or vested in them any telephone number in use in the State that is suspected on reasonable grounds of being used for the purposes of prostitution;
• that the accessing of web sites – whether located in the State or abroad – that advertise prostitution in the State should be treated in the same way as accessing sites that advertise or distribute child pornography.

[dob]

Other legal reforms recommended by the Committee are:

• increased penalties for trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation;
• increased penalties for organising or living off the earnings of prostitution;
• an offence of recklessly permitting a premises to be used for the purposes of prostitution;
• the regulation and inspection of premises advertised as massage parlours so as to eliminate those used for prostitution;
• witnesses in cases dealing with sexual exploitation through prostitution and/or trafficking to give evidence anonymously;
• an offence of grooming a child or vulnerable person for the purpose of sexual abuse or exploitation;
• power for An Garda Síochána to have disabled or vested in them any telephone number in use in the State that is suspected on reasonable grounds of being used for the purposes of prostitution;
• that the accessing of web sites – whether located in the State or abroad – that advertise prostitution in the State should be treated in the same way as accessing sites that advertise or distribute child pornography.

Fuck, that last one is designed by torl to close you down Sam. Fight it like fuck.

[dob]

This is worse than we had feared.

Totally unreasonable.


Fight it everyone.

[richieboy]

Its not good reading we will have to see what happened with it comes to the dail to be vote on not looking good .