Innovative Ruhama Campaign

[LaBelleThatcher]

Launched today:
http://www.ruhama.ie/page.php?intPageID=244

As you will immediately note, they are now adopting the term "purrostitution" made famous by Paul Connolly, and their emphasis has shifted away from demanding legal changes aimed at taking away the income of sex workers in a recession, when there is little or no chance of anyone who loses their job finding another one in any kind of hurry.

Now they are just demanding money. Money that they mostly spend on salaries and premises for themselves, junketing affiliated NGOs in pricey locations and lobbying against the expressed wishes and best interests of sex workers.

Some might feel that the ad, in itself, could be considered to be in appalling bad taste coming on to of changes to social welfare legislation that will force single parents back into the workplace as soon as their child is 7. There are few, if any, jobs, and no affordable childcare (7 is way too young to be left unsupervised for even a few minutes) with the result that many more women will find themselves with no option but "the purrostitution" for the same reason they used to in the recession of the 90s...because it was the only possible way to afford reasonable childcare. It is a lot cheaper and easier to get a good babysitter in for two evenings a week and sell sex. Than to get full time daycare and a full time job. In many cases the true cost of daytime childcare would wipe out most or all of the wages.

Ruhama do not like anyone mentioning the realities of the childcare factor, because it is not something they can even pretend to do anything about, but it was once the single biggest factor driving women into sex work, and very soon will be again.

...of course, the psychological damage of being "re-educated" by an organisation as fanatical and hypocritical as Ruhama must be incalculable...

[Patricia]

Another Ruhama ad campaign designed to spread the idea that no woman in sex work has any choices. What a surprise!

Here's another job ad:


Looking for a job opportunity? Give your entire life to your employer, a job you never retire from, a job that says you may never enjoy a sex/relationship, a job that dictates that you cannot own property, a job where you must be obedient to your employer, and you must endure poverty, dedicate your whole life to solemn prayer, depending on your employer you may never be able to leave your place of work or see your family again. Become a nun!

It's hard for me to imagine how a woman would want to become a nun. However I wouldn't be arrogant enough to tell other women they cannot chose to be nuns, just because it wouldn't be someting I'd choose.

[LaBelleThatcher]

Another Ruhama ad campaign designed to spread the idea that no woman in sex work has any choices. What a surprise!

It's hard for me to imagine how a woman would want to become a nun. However I wouldn't be arrogant enough to tell other women they cannot chose to be nuns, just because it wouldn't be someting I'd choose.

Pat, you forgot the bit about having to marry dead guys...very important that...

HOW ON EARTH does anyone get the idea their preferences should dictate other people's lives? It's the creepiest argument I have ever heard, so arrogant, so controlling...people used use the same argument against "homosexuality" at one time, but I think most of us have finally got past that!

Sarah Benson doesn't like the idea of women's bodies being exploited, it upsets her - so, sorry Orapan...no Bangkok for you, you'll just have to stay on the farm and watch your youngest brother and sister develop rickets while we try and find an old man to marry you and provide for you before your teeth start to fall out...

But, on any level, if you tell me you choose to be a sex worker then all I have a right to do is accept it, because you are at least my equal, and an adult capable of making good, reasoned, decisions based on the options available to you.

[BACMAN36]

Just heard the ad on Today FM.

Kinda weird hearing this on daytime radio @ 09.30 am.

[LaBelleThatcher]

Thinking about it after the first decent nights sleep in days. This isn't about whether sex work is a free choice or not. THAT just splits our lobby, which is, of course, exactly why they are attacking that angle in the first place, in the hope of kicking off a catfight between elective sex workers and survival sex workers.

This is about whether Ruhama has the slightest right to claim to speak for sex workers at all. I know they do not speak for me.

I had no choice but sex work or I wouldn't have done it. Ruhama was around at the time and I can honestly say, based on real experience, Ruhama were more repellant to me than sex work, and still are.

Let me state something else on record. If a daughter of mine showed up on the pages of E-I I wouldn't be thrilled, and I would want to hear her tell me she was ok with everything and everything was ok, but after that I certainly wouldn't be unduly concerned.

If a daughter of mine turned up in support of Ruhama or Turn Off the Red Light I would be lying awake at night trying to figure out where I went so horribly wrong that I raised either an arrogant controlling monster or a gullible fool.

[Doozer]

Another Ruhama ad campaign designed to spread the idea that no woman in sex work has any choices. What a surprise!

Here's another job ad:



It's hard for me to imagine how a woman would want to become a nun. However I wouldn't be arrogant enough to tell other women they cannot chose to be nuns, just because it wouldn't be someting I'd choose.


I heard that yesterday actually and nearly crashed the car
Making out that all women are pimped beaten and exploited by pimps

I heard this early in the morning so id say all the school running moms heard it too

[ber]

Whether u agree or disagree with it one thing has to be admitted is that whatever media or add company is behind
it they have come up with an add concept that will grab attention and will stick in the memory. It will get a big reaction
and the time its being aired will hit the demographic they want to. I presume their aim is to cause outrage and by god
they are hitting below the belt to get results

[Half Man and Half Dildo]

Everybody should print off a few stickers to carry with them, that way if you see one of their posters at a bus stop or wherever you can slap a sticker on it. A few possible suggestions below.

"Rescue Industry Propaganda"

"Escorts As Consenting Adults Say Stop Telling Lies About Us"

"Ruhama = The Catholic Church"

"Sex-Workers Want To Live Their Lives Free From Interference By The Catholic Church"

Etc, etc. Or something along these lines.