prostitutes lives saved over new law to criminalies punter's

[logs burn]

http://irishmirror.ie/news/irish-new...-laws-10430855

[Floki]

Prostitutes’ lives will be saved by new laws criminalising punters, says former sex worker...
Seriously?

Maybe it will be better for street workers, yes, but for escorts, no.
If anything, it will do the complete opposite.

If they also learnt, when this law came live in Sweden all those many years ago, then they would have seen that the number of Street Prostitution dropped, while online escorting had risen.

[Forceuser]

So she got herself addicted to heroin and now is blaming punters for availing of a service she herself decided to offer
to fund her habit. take some responsability

[FargoBoyle]

just to be controversial, but maybe that's a good thing. Street prostitution imho is much more associated with other kinds of social problems like drug taking and abuse and i wouldn't touch it for that (among other) reasons. In fact i find the street prostitution section on ei a little unnerving tbh.

but do you really know what goes on behind closed doors either, just because escorts have moved inside means little, guys are very much in the dark still

[Mary Magdalene]

Finally a sound point of view!

Just to be controversial, but maybe that's a good thing. Street prostitution imho is much more associated with other kinds of social problems like drug taking and abuse and I wouldn't touch it for that (among other) reasons. In fact I find the Street Prostitution section on EI a little unnerving tbh.

[FargoBoyle]

You can't know everything, sure. You just have to use common sense and your gut. I'm not saying that all apartment / hotel stuff is kosher. I'm just saying that I think the on-street stuff is generally where a lot of the bad stuff has happened.

In the age of the internet, I can't think of any good reason for street stuff.

that is the thing, we don't know much at all and guys gut feelings aren't always right, many street workers move inside or do outcalls, I find it more the case in the mainland UK though

[willie wacker]

Maybe are great politicians should read this instead

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish...tutes-10243390

[meatloaf2]

probably true as much less clients on our roads due to new law so less Street Walkers being hit or falling out of cars, makes sense

[JayM93]

To be fair, I do see where she is coming from regarding street prostitution. It's like a legislative mechanism to protect one from one's own self however the problem is that in theory it affects street workers and independent ladies alike although maybe not in practice, that will be revealed in due course.

Could it be said that a street worker feeding a drug habit and desperate be openly & freely engaging in such? Probably not. In my view, I would agree with the lady and conclude that the legislation is only beneficial in this regard.

An independent escort on the other hand without a drug habit, is happy in what she does and it was her choice to enter such a profession, could it be said that she is openly & freely engaging? Yes and thus, the Act is harmful in this regard.

Once a distinction is drawn, I don't particularly see a problem with Mias claims at all & I would actually agree with her.

Just on a final side note, she deserves a serious amount of credit considering her working class background and flirtations with class A substances to be in a position today that she's a LLM student today.

[Sexy Sandy 69]

So she got herself addicted to heroin and now is blaming punters for availing of a service she herself decided to offer
to fund her habit. take some responsability

I agree, the article says that she met a former punter in a detox unit, no-one forced her to start a relationship with this former punter who also, like herself, had a drug problem, no-one forced her to take heroin & no-one forced her to start working on the streets. It annoys the hell out of me when people blame society for their problems, many of which are, of their own making.

Clearly the detox programme didn't work, so she had 2 choices, to go back & ask for more help or go back on heroin. Now who's fault is that she chose heroin over further help?

Sandy x