View Full Version : Good afternoon Ruhama ladies, or should I say sisters...
I recently created a thread on these forums - https://www.escort-ireland.com/boards/threads/91064-Ciaran-Barnes-Sunday-Life - in which I highlighted how disgusting it is that you encourage journalists to expose escorts, and indeed further hurt those exposed escorts yourselves, by scanning in the tabloid articles and uploading them to your website so there is then a copy of them online, whereas otherwise there wouldn't be.
I gave the specific example of a recent Eamon Dillon of the Sunday World article which you had scanned in and uploaded to your website. This was an article where the Sunday World had located what they said was a victim of sex trafficking, gone in with secret cameras, pretending to be a client, and taken video of her in a state of undress. A shot of her breasts was was the main feature of the article.
You know Eamon Dillon, your mate Eamon, you help each other make money off the back of the sex industry, he sells sexy 'news' to the masses whilst you collect funding and donations to 'help the prostituted and trafficked persons'? One of your best mates I think, you even used some of your funding to buy a nice present for him which you called an 'award'. We in the sex industry know him too. We know him as a scumbag who ruins escorts lives.
To get to my point:
I am absolutely touched that when looking at your website today, I could no longer find Eamon's trafficking victims tits story, I think you may have removed it!!!
Why thank you Ruhama, this was the right decision I think.
LaBelleThatcher
21-05-12, 18:38
OMIGOD!!!
The contagion spreads...Ruhama is now under the control of E-I - is nowhere sacred?
:o :o :o
...but, on the other hand, it DID makes them sit up and start showing faint traces of respect for the privacy of other human beings...don't suppose I could interest you in colonising a few more NGOs?
:D
Seriously, that nonsense has to stop...not a week passes but Ruhama present a Sunday World article as "hard evidence" of something...all the while the Sunday world is deliberately destroying the lives of the very people they pretend to support and protect.
Somebody has to pull the plug on this AND apologise to all the people who have been made to suffer so the Sunday World can sell papers. Yes, they have legal recourse, but tabloids function on the premise that legal action usually only prolongs and exacerbates the exposure.
The organisation that receives at least €700,000 in government funding to help and support sex workers DEFINATELY shouldn't be using the money to encourage that level of destruction...but they still do.
Hiding the evidence is not enough - RUHAMA MUST APOLOGISE.
I find it laughable that a tabloid newspaper, which was the first to feature barely clothed females on its front page should now be the doyen of Rhuama in their joint bid to rid this country of sex. Patricia well done for getting even an iota of common sense into their heads, but don't go too far, God forbid they might actually help a few ladies that are trafficked and in distress.
I do share one thing with Sarah Benson, I too would love to see an open debate in Ireland around the sex industry, a debate that might educate and enlighten and possibly dictate a more civilised approach from Irish Society. There is a fundamental question around the current Rhuama advertising campaign and that is this.....if society is forcing 'girls' to enter the sex industry then why aren't we trying to change that society instead of trying continue with the status quo and 'saving' a few girls a year. Lets change the economic model that forces woman to choose the sex industry to feed their families and the model that puts hundreds of thousands of euro into a campaigning group that is not doing what it says on the tin.....
LaBelleThatcher
21-05-12, 19:09
I do share one thing with Sarah Benson, I too would love to see an open debate in Ireland around the sex industry, a debate that might educate and enlighten and possibly dictate a more civilised approach from Irish Society.
I share that sentiment Doodle, but I dunno where you got the idea Sarah Benson does...it's only very recently she blocked me from their facebook page for objecting to her promoting a blog as "brilliant" where all the schoolchildren they encourage to support them could read it, while the blogger was encouraging and facillitating the very worse kind of adolescent style cyberbullying in comments!! (I was just STUNNED that someone who ran the "Womens Aid" line for 7 years wouldn't delete that automatically) and then, I admit, flipping out when she boasted, on Twitter, about some woman who "became homeless" through leaving sex work and the accommodation they finally found for her after leaving her sweat for weeks...when they had the resources to offer her immediate accommodation next day...and then catching Sarah Benson out when she tried to cover it by changing the story to say that she was homeless as a sex worker too. I kept screen shots of it all
Of course that was stupid and childish of me because the woman they were boasting about was just a figure of speech for PR, not a real person. :(
There is a fundamental question around the current Rhuama advertising campaign and that is this.....if society is forcing 'girls' to enter the sex industry then why aren't we trying to change that society instead of trying continue with the status quo and 'saving' a few girls a year. Lets change the economic model that forces woman to choose the sex industry to feed their families and the model that puts hundreds of thousands of euro into a campaigning group that is not doing what it says on the tin.....
ROCK ON!!!
:D :D :D
But, let's go one further and extend that to making sure we live in a society where *NOBODY* can be forced to do *ANY* work that is abhorrent or totally unsuitable to survive, and that gets more relevant with every new "austerity measure".
...and when that is done...as long as they are not hurting anyone (and if gender equality in Ireland is so fragile that 2000 women can dent it by choosing to sell sex, you might as well give up!) let people make a living any way they choose.
They let people be professional footballers if they want to don't they?
Half Man and Half Dildo
21-05-12, 22:50
The Sunday World has allways used sex to sell itself.
I can remember as far back as a story they ran many years ago about hardcore porn being supposedly filmed in a shipping container made up to look like a hotel room in Waterford city.
Half Man and Half Dildo
21-05-12, 23:06
Ruhama's campaign slogan would be no less factual had it read "Women sell sex because they want to, not because they have to." There must be literally thousands of women running their own porn sites on the net, they haven't been forced into doing it, so why should escorting be really any different in that regards?
LaBelleThatcher
22-05-12, 13:27
I guess Ruhama are rattled...yesterday they pop up and promote articles about themselves, today they are too busy frantically tweeting their fake "purrostitute persona" blog ( http://theprostitutionexperience.com ) OBLIVIOUS to the fact that the latest "sermon" contains a serious discrepancy, contradicting an earlier statement.
I wouldn't mention it, except that this is potentially extremely embarrassing, not just for Ruhama, but for real sex workers as a whole.
You may never have thought about this, but, on the whole people in sex work tend to place a higher priority on honesty than is the norm. That is why, even where sex work is heavily criminalised and persecuted, and they could make far more money, with less effort, less risk of similar penalties and less stigma, for real crimes, they still choose sex work.
Anyway, even though the most rabid followers of Stella Marr are not sufficiently convinced by this blog to bother with it, there are bound to be some people who, knowing no better, see this blog and it's contradictions and believe that is a real sex worker.
So, ladies of Ruhama, in "why I love men" your protagionist claims to have stood up at a conference in Buswells (even though none of the people I know who were there remember anything of the kind), but in today's offering she claims to have handed in a written statement to be read. Please fix one or the other before you embarass us all any more....
...and besides, I have screenshots now :)
Thank you for your constant and intent attention.
LaBelleThatcher
22-05-12, 21:02
...and just in case you ever feel voiceless, or as if nobody is listening Ruhama have now changed the phrase "A few months before I wrote this piece I provided a written statement to be read out at a prostitution conference;" to "A few months before I wrote this piece I provided a written statement to be read out at a prostitution seminar;" in their synthetic purrostitute blog...which is *MUCH* less embarrassing...and they have even persuaded some of the usual Greek Chorus to fill in a few comments on the last two articles (just because most of them are written in the same style as the blog does *NOT* mean they are written by the blogger...all these people sound the same to me anyway; OTT, irrational, self absorbed, histrionic and dishonest...).
...and just in case you ever feel voiceless, or as if nobody is listening Ruhama have now changed the phrase "A few months before I wrote this piece I provided a written statement to be read out at a prostitution conference;" to "A few months before I wrote this piece I provided a written statement to be read out at a prostitution seminar;" in their synthetic purrostitute blog...which is *MUCH* less embarrassing...and they have even persuaded some of the usual Greek Chorus to fill in a few comments on the last two articles (just because most of them are written in the same style as the blog does *NOT* mean they are written by the blogger...all these people sound the same to me anyway; OTT, irrational, self absorbed, histrionic and dishonest...).
checked it out. Yeah I'd hazard it's a safe bet to say its all the same person. Either way the make-up language and general air of contrivance qualify it as propoganda. Some Catholic anti-abortionist groups do the same thing. Everyone gets a script ,someone sets up the blog and types it out and other members of the organisation sign in under different usernames to congragulate and encourage the imaginary speaker and away they go "diary of a survivour of abortion or etc",.
It's for a good cause is the general excuse, because you know taking the persona of a "victim" or whatever garners them credit as a useful and much needed organisation whose sole existance isn't just the continued propogation of an out-moded faith system with the not so hidden agenda of bringing the country back under church control.
All I'm saying really is that you're right and I call this on a basis of Takes one to know one.
LaBelleThatcher
23-05-12, 23:26
D'you know Bailey, I don't think it is even really about faith, I don't think it ever was...faith (whether in catholicism, feminism, or something else) is just used as an an excuse to abandon all decency, responsibility and conscience...because it feels SO GOOD to impose your will on other people's lives, and if you can screw a great big salary out of that, so much the better.
I know a young woman in a very abusive relationship...where can I, in all conscience, tell her to go, when, since I took this up again, I have had a ringside seat to watch the former manager of Women's Aid behave like a spiteful, manipulative, morally disabled adolescent on daily basis? I can't take responsibility for leaving someone in a vulnerable state at the mercy of people like that...and yet these people get huge salaries..."caring" doesn't even enter into it...