Criminalising punters: Talk on Radio

[Curious k]

Is this what journalism has become?

Honestly what opinion do you expect from escorts and their clients? They obviously think the law is wrong, and will also argue the sex business is great for them and their clients.

You may as well try interview the people pushing for the law to be introduced, and get the exact opposite but equally predictable answers.

If you're a journalist, why not come up with something creative? Write about your own experiences? If you don't have any experience, maybe you should stick to what you know. Also you could ask the general public, go out with a public survey and ask people of all ages, sex, religion.

How lazy has journalism become. FFS

[SmallHorn]

Is this what journalism has become?

Honestly what opinion do you expect from escorts and their clients? They obviously think the law is wrong, and will also argue the sex business is great for them and their clients.

You may as well try interview the people pushing for the law to be introduced, and get the exact opposite but equally predictable answers.

If you're a journalist, why not come up with something creative? Write about your own experiences? If you don't have any experience, maybe you should stick to what you know. Also you could ask the general public, go out with a public survey and ask people of all ages, sex, religion.

How lazy has journalism become. FFS

I get your point, but he is looking for the clients view, what they will do when laws are introduced.
The general public wont be able to answer those questions.

[talkabout]

I get your point, but he is looking for the clients view, what they will do when laws are introduced.
The general public wont be able to answer those questions.

Carry on regardless.

(A line from a Beautiful South song I believe).

[samlad]

Is this what journalism has become?

Honestly what opinion do you expect from escorts and their clients? They obviously think the law is wrong, and will also argue the sex business is great for them and their clients.

You may as well try interview the people pushing for the law to be introduced, and get the exact opposite but equally predictable answers.

If you're a journalist, why not come up with something creative? Write about your own experiences? If you don't have any experience, maybe you should stick to what you know. Also you could ask the general public, go out with a public survey and ask people of all ages, sex, religion.

How lazy has journalism become. FFS

Well, nobody else is doing anything about it, and the few that do get hushed or pushed aside, so fair play to Andy from the BBC.

[Curious k]

Well, nobody else is doing anything about it, and the few that do get hushed or pushed aside, so fair play to Andy from the BBC.

That's kinda my point Sam. I believe his article will surely suffer the same fate as the formers. Why? Because it's bias, and bias articles don't hold any substance.

The people looking for the law to be passed are speaking also from a very biased viewpoint, and I fully disagree with them. Now counteracting/tackling that in the same tunnel visioned way, is surely something doomed for failure.

What I suggested is the only unbiased viewpoint available to both sides of the argument, agreed? I honestly believe that. Why should the public not be involved. I'm sure most of the general public would agree a man visiting a genuine escort isn't a crime, so why not utilise it? Surely that's how a journalist should operate.

IMO, it's just going around in circles.

[samlad]

That's kinda my point Sam. I believe his article will surely suffer the same fate as the formers. Why? Because it's bias, and bias articles don't hold any substance.

The people looking for the law to be passed are speaking also from a very biased viewpoint, and I fully disagree with them. Now counteracting/tackling that in the same tunnel visioned way, is surely something doomed for failure.

What I suggested is the only unbiased viewpoint available to both sides of the argument, agreed? I honestly believe that. Why should the public not be involved. I'm sure most of the general public would agree a man visiting a genuine escort isn't a crime, so why not utilise it? Surely that's how a journalist should operate.

IMO, it's just going around in circles.

Okay, then we shall assume that you won't be taking part.

[Lucy Chambers]

Okay, then we shall assume that you won't be taking part.

Pray he isn't.

[Mickey O leary]

Too little too late really as the Bill is passed and that's it.
Them lousy lot is Stormont couldn't care less now.

[funlover12]

someone needs to bring up that you cant punish the client and not the sex worker, youre just basically using the sex workers as bait then (aka state sponsored pimping) if there was nobody selling sex then there would be no clients, its fucked how a couple of countries get away with this including northern ireland now

thats something that needs to be talked about.

[funlover12]

someone needs to bring up that you cant punish the client and not the sex worker, youre just basically using the sex workers as bait then (aka state sponsored pimping) if there was nobody selling sex then there would be no clients, its fucked how a couple of countries get away with this including northern ireland now

thats something that needs to be talked about.

they see prostitution as scum, and a 'vice' of society and want to get married men to stop using them because they think they will be saving homes and marriages, but the irony is they will be destroying more now, these laws are ripe for blackmail (well more than they already are) where as now its one persons word against another (client vs pimp/escort and who is wifey more likely to believe, husband or these?) now it will be backed by law (wifey will be going with the police now over what the husband says) so what could have been sorted out before now wont be able to be, which will lead to more wrecked homes not less

this is an angle I have not heard anything about before, if someone (some people, I mean clients in this case) wants something they will do it regardless, and fuck the consequences. wont someone please think of the children!
daddy cant otherwise he wouldnt be sticking cock in sex workers before the change in law