New Bill

[SteveB]

Im of the opinion that it will be used to target brothels and people who avail of the services of street workers. At the moment it is the working girl who gets prosecuted here, for solicitation or brothel keeping, but this law will target the customers too. I cannot see how they can prove an excange of money between an indepentant client & a escort unless they actually see it taking place. Plus I would imagine that Gardai have more important things to do than trying to chase us lot around all day!

As Clyde said earlier in this thread, the entire law is a farce and ill-thought out. Where are you going to draw the line between a first date, where the man may be paying for a meal, drinks etc. and a visit to an Escort? It is a law to placate the religious fundamentalists.
However, when it first comes in, there will be a push from Morrow and his cronies to get a few scalps.

[SteveB]

It's only the odd, (already a criminal ) punter who will be so cool as to
say "prove it" to the cops

The rest will be vulnerable to paying the sizable fine to avoid court.

The law (as I understand it) in either jurisdiction does not provide for the police to collect fines on the street. If they want to fine you, they will have to prove it in court.

[Meursault]

Interestingly, the bill does not differentiate between an escort or a long-term girlfriend or even a wife. It just makes paying for sex illegal.

yea i agree and theres more than one way to skin a cat. a client pays the escort with cash, the married man pays his wife with health insurance or a mortgage on the home etc. there is a transaction of assets, just not in cash.

its amazing how prejudice people are. They see marriage as a morally responsible thing and not a form of prostitution both ways.

[Meursault]

another thing is you screw a woman for free and its legal. but pay for it and its not. so i go into a nightclub and pull a woman and its all legal. pathetic really.

they should legalize it and tax it, but that wont happen because all the married women will put up a fuss

[Zealot7]

As others have said, how about guys who are in relationships or married?

Lets be honest, and this is probably a terrible way to look at it (I most certainly don't have this view myself), but there is a monetary cost to you being in a relationship vs being single. Eating out, extra food, extra petrol/diesel etc. Given that any couple should be having regular sex, and that money changes hands on a regular basis (not directly for sex mind you). Could that qualify as purchasing sex, and thus be illegal under this law?

It really would be nice if the government would just fuck off and leave us all alone at times, this is what you get when you give your government too much power.

[Meursault]

As others have said, how about guys who are in relationships or married?

Lets be honest, and this is probably a terrible way to look at it (I most certainly don't have this view myself), but there is a monetary cost to you being in a relationship vs being single. Eating out, extra food, extra petrol/diesel etc. Given that any couple should be having regular sex, and that money changes hands on a regular basis (not directly for sex mind you). Could that qualify as purchasing sex, and thus be illegal under this law?

It really would be nice if the government would just fuck off and leave us all alone at times, this is what you get when you give your government too much power.

they wont prosecute you for being married. they are trying to incentivize marriage because it produces kids which an economy needs.

but technically you are right. you buy services from your wife and your wife buys services from you, of which you call marriage or love. you both trade with each other just not in cash.

being extremely pedantic, everything is a form of prostitution. you work as in you provide a service just as an escort does for a price.

we are all prostitutes said laing.

[annabel taylor]

Some Escorts seem to be looking forward to the implementation of this Bill as they can increase their rates but it will not only affect clients but ALL escorts too, we're all in the same boat..
It has been introduced in other countries and escorts have increased their rates but remember Ireland is not like other European counties and tend in most cases to accept what is law. Big changes ahead I strongly believe.

Yet I could get coke weed quicker than dominos delivered

Ooo very law abiding

[alverton04]

Yet I could get coke weed quicker than dominos delivered

Ooo very law abiding

i agree pet , some of those delivery men

[Mickey O leary]

The new bill will not stop me working in ireland and will not stop clients from seeing girls!
Outcalls r a good solution
People always chouse "illegal" stuff , r more exciting

of course it will put people off, the irish are a funny lot and when the law changes and the client can become a criminal in the sense its makes a huge difference, anyone who thinks nothing will change or its makes it more exciting is crazy and is living in cloud cuckoo land.

[Chez]

People talk that this and that won't change but when its actually comes in in June, it will be change. I am disappointed but what can you do.