Zurich

[the traveller]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23839358

Been listening to BBC R4 P.M. this afternoon and this was in the news. The link above is a written piece about the same, not sure if you can listen again.
Seems to me to be a much more civilised "approach" than the one TORL and the Jo(c)ke committee wish to introduce to this country.But to be honest, I'm quite happy the way things are now here. I'd much rather visit a very attractive lady in the comfort of her apartment, shower, soft light central heating, oh, what more could a man want!
Any way interesting piece.

[Morpheus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23839358

Been listening to BBC R4 P.M. this afternoon and this was in the news. The link above is a written piece about the same, not sure if you can listen again.
Seems to me to be a much more civilised "approach" than the one TORL and the Jo(c)ke committee wish to introduce to this country.But to be honest, I'm quite happy the way things are now here. I'd much rather visit a very attractive lady in the comfort of her apartment, shower, soft light central heating, oh, what more could a man want!
Any way interesting piece.

Nice one Traveller! Thanks for the article.

Drive in sex boxes!!! What will they think of next?? Having said that it is certainly a novel and much more liberated approach to street prostitution. The proponents of the scheme have the safety of the street sex workers as their main objective. It will also give the girls working on the streets more control - as the compound is gated and there are security men at the gate. Which will make it far harder for some poor working girl to get beaten up in a quiet deserted alley.

Like yourself I prefer the situation of in-door discreet escorting that we have in Ireland.

However, this is aimed at street prostitution. And it is a far more rational, compassionate and sensible approach. It aims to keep the streets girls safer, and also avoid the annoyance/ complaints of local reisdents.

It is based on the premise that prostitution will not go away just, and looks at ways of making it safer for the girls who engage in it (on the streets). Unfortunately the TORL and our law makers wouldn't have that degree of sense or compassion. Due to their repulsion of prostituion, they just aim to make it even more difficult for any sex workers in Ireland (both in-door escorts and street sex workers), in an attempt to drive them out of prostitution into their arms. A strategy that will only result in misery for all parties involved.

[The Libertarian]

TBH, nothing short of stoning clients and sex workers could be more uncivilised/inhuman/anti civil libertarian and basically a mad abuse of basic human and constitutional rights than the insane recommendations of that looney tunes Anti Sex Worker Committee!

[zoozoozoo]

Article in todays Irish Times about this , maybe Limerick should twin with Zurich. Also a very good letter in the letters page , cannot link

[the traveller]

Unfortunately the TORL and our law makers wouldn't have that degree of sense or compassion

I also think that they were so heavily lobbied by TORL, and, heaven forfend, no sex worker being given the right to reply, that they just did not have the balls to do, as Dublin City council did, tell TORL to enjoy sex and travel. It's just not P.C. to stand there and tell rabid fems that you disagree with them. They took a stance before the conference etc, hence the defeated motion in the senate, and have now spent big bucks on trying to defend that preformed stance.
Same with the unions, and other non-fem members of TORL.If the unions and political parties were so sure of their case, why has it never been put to a vote and been fully mandated.
Unfortunately, the people that will get a vote are (why?) relying on TORLs campaign of dis-information for their information. All the submissions and time spent in committee was a total waste of time, the hearings were so heavily rigged in favour of TORL, that anybody that took a stand different to a sex purchase ban were, at best, ignored, and worst, treated as a hostile witness. So much for the chairmans remarks that they were looking at all angles( lying sack of dung).
I think that the only way really to get any sort of change in T.D.s attitudes is to talk with them in their surgeries, but that take balls. And that's another thing that the nuns and rad fems are counting on, silence of the clients and workers, because of the stigma that is attached to the buying and selling of sex. The citizens of Zurich are just as moral as the Irish,but don't seem to have the "catholic guilt" trip attached to sex,period.You can hear that on the phone-ins"Ye dirty XXXX don't ya know this is sex we're talking about for Gods sake". Heard that in reply to one of our lovely ladies here that have been prepared to be "out there".

Anyway, as the man said,"Good Night, and Goog Luck"(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433383/) [ Good movie with a lot of similarities between then and now, just a different topic] that's my take on it all.

[Larrii]

Article in todays Irish Times about this , maybe Limerick should twin with Zurich. Also a very good letter in the letters page , cannot link

Link here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/debate/let...tion-1.1506293

... good man Mr Walsh