I am not an expert but I believe the legal crux of the matter will be proving that payment has taken place. It will not be sufficient to arrest someone leaving the apartment of a known sex worker, I could be the cleaner for gods sake. The solution in my opinion is to find clever ways of paying for the service that cannot be related to payment for sex. There will be a legal requirement to prove a case and if the Gardai have to use scarce resources chasing bank accounts and transactions or whatever then convictions will be slow, or non existent. If we all get freaked out every time a Garda car passes as we are walking along the street then the law will be even more successful than ever. Know your rights if stopped, know what you are legally required to answer and answer nothing else, this is a good rule to adopt at all times anyway as it really pisses them off if they think you know what to say not to say.
The elephant in the room is the media, I suspect the Gardai will use puppet news outlets to publish photos of "suspects" the thought of a public outing will be worse than any fine.
If and when the law comes into force the first few cases will be headlines, after that, and if there is someone brave enough a constitutional challenge could see it defeated as it is impossible to criminalise one half of a transaction. Only my thoughts.
Melindablondey (26-10-14)
I see that the person behind these Ruhamians cartoons also thinks that the new laws will be futile:
https://www.escort-ireland.com/blog/...ill-ruhamians/
I anticipate that we will see a lot more 'legitimate' massage profiles springing up on this site. After all, it's not illegal to pay for a massage.
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Cindy Forever (27-10-14), Melindablondey (26-10-14), Mr Cuddles (27-10-14), Petros (26-10-14), warmcome (26-10-14)
I was not hurting anyone with my punting habit...
I did my best to spot anything wrong like trafficking, pimps etc
Im financially independent, worth 2m approx
no wife kids so im thinking
Best to avoid escorting for a while..
Do a bit of travel...
Younger women these days really do love sex and dont have the inhibitions of the Eire of my younger days
Too much stigma here going out with older guy
But i want to stay in Europe and not South America or Asia
But where..any ideas?
Maybe poland, romania, ukraine...?
Last edited by kevinmurphyfun; 26-10-14 at 11:01. Reason: Spelling
Anyhow the Cops just don't have the resources!!
Look at White Collar Crime stats!!!
Just joined seeking arrangements selected Romania ...looks good so far.
Hangover today so plenty of time
Will keep posing here if its ok
Thanks for links, advise etc
Just remember that in order to justify this law, the police would probably be primarily focusing on collaring people who pay for sex. If they concentrate their efforts in finding 'crime', they will either find it, or build a case to look like it. Brace yourself for more ambiguous reports on the success of this law
Last edited by samlad; 26-10-14 at 11:18.
kinky gina (26-10-14)
I'm not an expert either but I think if gardai know a sex worker is working in a particular place and observes someone entering that location and staying a period of time without persuavive evidence of them being there for a legitimate reason, that is enough evidence to arrest someone on suspicion. Gardai don't need to have 100% incontrovertible evidence to make an arrest.
Proving what actually happened inside an appartment may be the difficult part........ assuming time and companionship is not made illegal too.
The problem for a lot of punters will be the threat of publicity, through a court case or even the media, to avoid this a lot will, if given the option, pay a fine instead.
If you get caught once and end up paying a fine for €500 .... € 1000 who knows how much, how likely are you to take the risk of being caught a second time.