Tag Archives: prostitution

Columnist Claims Sex Workers Can’t Be Raped!

That title is probably enough to leave you feeling angry, and I would love to tell you that it has all been a misunderstanding… but unfortunately I can’t. There is actually a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times who genuinely believes that sex workers can’t be raped as it should really be classed as “theft”. Continue reading Columnist Claims Sex Workers Can’t Be Raped!

Sex Workers Fined For Not Wearing High-Vis!

You might be reading the title and thinking “what are Escort Ireland on about now?” After all, fining sex workers for not wearing high-vis is a ridiculous idea, right? Well, it is, but that isn’t stopping it from happening in Italy, as the Expo World Fair 2015 draws more and more sex workers to Milan. Continue reading Sex Workers Fined For Not Wearing High-Vis!

Calling bullshit on the ICI’s ‘escort immigration’ figures

A tide of decadence is nearing the Republic of Ireland. Doors are being locked, shutters closed and children tucked safely in bed for fear of what is coming: hordes of scantily-clad prostitutes accompanied by a marching army of pimps, the distant sound of hydraulics like a chorus of war drums to the ears of the virtuous. Continue reading Calling bullshit on the ICI’s ‘escort immigration’ figures

Why Criminalising Prostitution is Short Sighted

When in 1999 the Swedish government decided to criminalise the buying of sex for men, the international community looked on with a mixture of disbelief and amusement. Now sixteen years later, the question of criminalising prostitution has crept onto the shores of the UK, circulating once again the debate about whether paying for sex can ever be truly regulated. Continue reading Why Criminalising Prostitution is Short Sighted

California Lawsuit Could Decriminalise Prostitution!

We all know what the best solution is to make the sex industry safer, and it isn’t criminalising the client. Criminalisation pushes the industry underground and makes it much more dangerous for sex workers. What we should be doing is decriminalising it and accepting the fact that sex work is real work. Continue reading California Lawsuit Could Decriminalise Prostitution!