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

[Zoidberg]

Any chance we can start using something to mask our IP addresses like Tor, a VPN or a proxy? If members start leaving reviews for escorts in the North then it's admitting guilt.

[oscarmilde]

Can someone fill me in on what the penalties will be in cases of conviction?

[oscarmilde]

might not be if one is evaluating the companionship provided. Reviews will need to be more discrete so probably no problem

[westie]

Can someone fill me in on what the penalties will be in cases of conviction?

1st conviction 5 decades of the rosary
2nd Stations of the cross
3rd A weeks retreat on Lough Derg

[Lucy Chambers]

1st conviction 5 decades of the rosary
2nd Stations of the cross
3rd A weeks retreat on Lough Derg

Ba ha ha ha ha ha

[Cable87]

I wonder how many of these moral-spouting, pontificating, hypocritical pricks are REGULAR CLIENTS of the ladies who work/tour in the North. They have nothing but their own careers in mind, and thus they vote accordingly, because they know that giving this topic a fair and informed examination would amount to career/political suicide.

There is a very specific reason that the issue of escorting/prostitution has been seemingly overshadowed and subsumed by the issue of human trafficking, and that is because of the moralistic and emotional appeal inherent in human trafficking as an issue. NO ONE is going to stand up and say that they are AGAINST human trafficking or legislation designed and/or implemented to address and combat it, because it in itself is an issue that no one can rightfully defend or condone.

This is where the sleight-of-hand takes place: by creating a FALSE equivalent between human trafficking and prostitution as a free choice of work-- and intentionally intertwining the two topics-- they disguise their moralistic, special interest groups agenda within a topic they know that no one would ever want to oppose. That's why we have never seen legislation (either implemented or proposed), that ONLY discusses escorting/prostitution as the SEPARATE ISSUE that it really is. Groups like Ruhama and the Immigrant Council have their own agendas that are ultimately ANTI-CHOICE and ANTI-WOMEN, underpinned by a radical feminist ideology which inherently discounts even the remote possibility that any woman would EVER 'freely choose' to be a sex worker, because this would undermine their most fundamental ideological premise, which is that ALL WOMEN are 'victims' of their invisible boogieman perpetrator they call the 'patriarchy'.

This is of course a self-contradicting position, but moralist crusader types are rarely ever deterred by the gaps in their own positions.

[69patrick69]

1st conviction 5 decades of the rosary
2nd Stations of the cross
3rd A weeks retreat on Lough Derg

so no matter how you look at you're going to get fucked.

[rubberlover]

Hypocrisy reigns. Its OK to abuse kids in care homes etc as in Kincora, and the like, also perfectly OK for RA men to rape 16 year olds, but don't allow consenting adults to engage in mutually acceptable behaviour.

[meath chap]

Any chance we can start using something to mask our IP addresses like Tor, a VPN or a proxy? If members start leaving reviews for escorts in the North then it's admitting guilt.

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.

[SteveB]

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” Mark Twain
The reports of EI’s impending death are also greatly exaggerated

Escort Ireland like activities have being going on for as long as Human Beings have been able to communicate in any form.

Nobody has ever been able to stop it.

Lord Morrow and his ilk are well-known for lacking foresight and vision. If they had any they would know their efforts will be a nuisance to many, and bring real danger to some, but generally not make much difference.

I think also, we should not discount the fact that a lot of the reason for the bill is the same reason the ban on “gay blood” is in existence. That reason is to placate shadowy organisations like the Evangelical Protestant Society and their many Catholic equivalents. Unfortunately, as Alyssa Jenkins said in another post, “at first they will need to enforce it so a few examples will promote panic”. But after that it is possible the whole thing will just die down.

And it is not law yet. The Justice Minister himself, David Ford admits it would be difficult to enforce, and opposes it becoming law. What sort of law is it, that the Justice Minister himself does not want?