what happens to E.I now? will the site be taken down?

[justfrank44]

No! Why do you ask that? Who would be happy being arrested for anything?

This is why I'm curious to know how they intend to enforce any new laws that they may come up with.

What I meant was, that even if they do not have enough evidence to eventually prosecute, people will know you have visited escorts, your family etc will know and what will be the fallout. It is the fear factor of being outed as much as being charged if it happens.As has been said before, a lot of arrests and pics in paper will do the job even if every client caught ends up paying a fine and not going to court.

but it won't be the same here, clients wont be able to pm escorts and clients in the same way they were able to, will they?

Well why wouldn't they. Nothing is being done to make PM's or EI illegal.We will still be able to annoy the shit out of each other through PM's no matter what.

[Johnny Simpleton]

What I meant was, that even if they do not have enough evidence to eventually prosecute, people will know you have visited escorts, your family etc will know and what will be the fallout. It is the fear factor of being outed as much as being charged if it happens.As has been said before, a lot of arrests and pics in paper will do the job even if every client caught ends up paying a fine and not going to court.



Well why wouldn't they. Nothing is being done to make PM's or EI illegal.We will still be able to annoy the shit out of each other through PM's no matter what.

would it still be ok to arrange visits etc by pm and discuss who you met etc with other clients, Frank.

[justfrank44]

would it still be ok to arrange visits etc by pm and discuss who you met etc with other clients, Frank.

Pming the escort should be fine, but be careful about talking to clients about who you are going to meet. At the end of the day you are talking to a username, you have no idea who is behind it. It might be police or just some numpty who gets his thrills waiting outside an escorts location looking to put a face to a username.It could be you on the front of the sunday world.

[wnolan1992]

With indies, it's not really enforced even in Sweden anymore, there have been very few prosecutions IIRC.

If Fitzgerald has her way and this becomes law in Ireland in a few years time, I will largely ignore it (despite being a married man with kids). I'll be a bit more careful, and wary of sting operations (new escorts with zero feedback will have a tough time).

As for stakeouts, I imagine the conversation would go something like this:

"Yes, officer, I was visiting this woman. She's a former escort, and I was once a client of hers, back when it was legal. We've become good friends, we like to get together for a drink and a chat, and sometimes we still have a good shag. Oh, she's still on the game? Funny, she didn't mention that".

Very unlikely they could film the money changing hands, so either I'm skint when they catch me on the way out, or I have a fair bit of cash when they catch me on the way in. I'll stop putting it in a separate envelope and pay her out of my wallet. What is an illegal amount of cash to carry in a wallet?

The only real chance of gathering evidence would be through electronic eavesdropping. If you're visiting her at the same time as "randyshagger" (or whatever) was scheduled to do so, that might be difficult to explain. But as being a escort won't be illegal, this would involve spying on an innocent person. This would need anti-terrorist powers that the police don't usually have, Fitzgerald would have to argue that prostitution = trafficking = organised crime = terrorism. A bit of a stretch, to put it mildly.

[HappyHunter6]

So this isn't coming in till mid 2015.. I presume same rules as before apply at the moment!

[wnolan1992]

It won't become law until mid 2015 at the earliest.

To be perfectly frank I cannot see the police wasting their already precious time chasing ordinary decent folk having fun.

[philipkntz]

To be perfectly frank I cannot see the police wasting their already precious time chasing ordinary decent folk having fun.

You think that they will chase after heavily armed dangerous criminals, when they can keep up their arrest record by chasing after soft targets?

[slavetoyou]

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good point,theres a load of things to be thought out when this comes in.

if a guard caught you and seized your phone which they can and seen numbers and got into your escort ireland profile and read 5 reviews,boom 5 charges of paying for sex.[/QUOTE]

how could they prove that the reviews were genuine ?

If they are up on this site they must be genuine