You better be in love or married if you want to have sex (according to labour women)!

[Morpheus]

My sentiments exactly.

And there was I thinking humans were somewhat intelligent..... is it a prerequisite to get into power that you have to have a brain the size of an atom?

It's a bad joke. I'm half convinced them morons can't even figure out how to tie their shoes without assistance.

To be honest LDM, I think politicians and law makers are intelligent people (well some anyway), but all they really care about is votes.

So they will choose to listen or not listen to common sense depending on which they think will get them the most votes.

Labour should be a lot smarter though, seeing as they are the one party to have lost the most ground in opinion polls.

I certainly hope they don't think that bringing in the Swedish model or equivalent, and controlling the sex lives of consenting adults, will bring them any more votes in the next election.

[Rachel Divine]

Currently, a prostitute cannot meet another prostitute for any reason in a public place. Two prostitutes having a coffee or a meal together in a restaurant for instance, are breaking the law. Crazy isn't it.

What a laugh! And you do post it on an open forum...

[Rachel Divine]

A quick add to my post above.
Is nothing wrong of two prostitutes to walk on the street together, have a coffee, go for dinner, pub etc...

In case a client reads here and see me on the street with another escort and call the Guards saying we are not allowed on to walk on the street together...

[The Equalizer]

Check the link below to see who are trying to pretend they are saints as of 29 September 2012:

http://www.ruhama.ie/page.php?intPageID=202

Keep an eye, and be warned; The Equalizer understands that a certain CEO of a certain organisation has a username under which they peruse this site.


The Equalizer-Guardian Angel of Escorts and Punters Alike

[UKHeather]

There are no laws in Ireland stopping two legally resident women that are suspected sex workers from having a meal or coffee together in a restaurant.

They are allowed meet in public and have coffee or a meal together so long as they don't solicit or importune people for sexual services.

They can't stop two legally resident women from having meals or coffee together in public, for fecks sake.

Soliciting or importuning for purposes of prostitution in public is illegal though.

7.—A person who in a street or public place solicits or importunes another person or other persons for the purposes of prostitution shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding—

Loitering for purposes of prostitution.

8.—(1) A member of the Garda Síochána who has reasonable cause to suspect that a person is loitering in a street or public place in order to solicit or importune another person or other persons for the purposes of prostitution may direct that person to leave immediately that street or public place

Just turn off phones and sex workers would not be committing a soliciting and importuning offense. They can't stop two legally resident women from having a meal or coffee together. Thats nonsense. Just switch off phones and don't loiter to solicit or importune. If you don't loiter to solicit or importune in a public place, then you are not a prostitute according to the law.

Look at the old UK law regarding two or more prostitutes 'congregating' in a public place. It's a public order offence and presumably relevent in the North of Ireland. Though, perhaps it's been amended since I read through the laws.