Commissioner for human rights speaks the truth

[Billygoatgruff]

Hopefully people will listen:

Criminalising purchase of sex, such as in Ireland, increases risk of violence, says Council of Europe
https://jrnl.ie/6300524

[ladiesman217]

Hopefully people will listen:

Criminalising purchase of sex, such as in Ireland, increases risk of violence, says Council of Europe
https://jrnl.ie/6300524

It will fall flat on deaf ears. Amnesty International was one of several global organisations who spoke out against the criminalisation of purchasing sexual services before the law was changed 7~ years back, and were they listed to? Not a hope. The only way they'll listen to the commissioner is if they are told to by their paymaster, cunt Ursula Van fuckface.

[WeeJimmy]

The Government take their orders from Europe so it Wont change, lt will come to the stage where escorts wont be allowed to advertise like in the US and Spain for example

[Boobsandbumlover]

The Government take their orders from Europe so it Wont change, lt will come to the stage where escorts wont be allowed to advertise like in the US and Spain for example

Bull….the Netherlands are in Europe and sexwork has been de-criminalised for years. Oh and by the way so is Spain which you yourself use as an example. So your argument that it is Europe that calls the shots is rubbish.

[Boobsandbumlover]

Hopefully people will listen:

Criminalising purchase of sex, such as in Ireland, increases risk of violence, says Council of Europe
https://jrnl.ie/6300524

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/e...alties%20apply.

This is the ‘law’ …interestingly as I see it…if you take this to a human rights court you’re very likely to win your case. Based on a number of aspects.

1. Consensual sex between two adults could and should never be a crime whether money is exchanged or not.

2. No one can ever prove that a ‘buyer’ of sex actually paid for the sex unless there’s a third party present to witness the transaction. Money found on the premises is not evidence that this money was exchanged for sex, just that it is there.

3. The whole premise for questioning anyone entering or leaving a certain property is against that person’s basic human rights and only serves to intimidate that person to answer questions they have no obligation to do.

And I’m sure a good lawyer could come up with pages and pages of arguments that this is a violation of people’s basic human rights.

The above should of course not be taken as a condonation of the criminality in sexwork that is clearly present. The problem is however that the ‘punter’ also maybe the victim of those crimes just as the sexworker is. The crime should not be sexwork. Many young women and men are also used as cheap labour where people are trafficked to work as cleaners, maids, etc where passports are being held back and other criminality such as rape takes place. In those cases the victim of those practices do not commit a crime by working for someone. Cleaning is not a crime, serving someone is not a crime as much as having consensual sex, paid or not is not a crime. It’s the peripheral activities by third parties that are often criminal.
That’s why for example in the Netherlands prostitution or sexwork is de-criminalised.