"new law"

[Davidontour]

@ Xsierrax: I had been thinking same myself, tks for throwing up the question.


It does make it more clear with the replies from Nonpareil & Davidontour.


But like everything in Ireland of late, the "haters" will have something else to agree on when this bill is eventually passed.

They should campaign to make it safer for workers, not the opposite.

The 'haters' are a bizarre mix of religionists, opportunistic NGOs, naive do-gooders and a relatively small but noisy brand of feminism.

All are wrong -- the biblical Jesus had more time and sympathy for sex workers than he had for money lenders and pharisees, NGO funding will gradually dry up as the mythical hordes of the coercively trafficked continue to fail to appear, the do-gooders will have to face the reality that most sex workers want rights not rescue and swerfs will have to accept that silencing and denying women the choice to earn money as they choose is in fact the opposite of what feminism is about.

The aim of some is to 'stamp out prostitution', an aim just as realistic as alcohol prohibition and the war on drugs. Thus the likes of Sweden come up with novel ideas which are simply a variation on the failed century-old prohibition policies in the US.

Rather than pissing money up the wall chasing consenting adults and trying to 'rescue' people who want to be left alone, governments should be looking at New Zealand, where decriminalisation 12 years ago has proved highly successful.