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I would love to know what indicates this?Originally Posted by Janko
It's not as if Eastern European, African or Asian women are retarded!
It certainly exists in the minds of TV scriptwriters and researchers who are blinkered deliberately for sure!
But please let us know it as you see it!
BTW The penalty for coercion in this area should be life for a pimp!
Ride them on the beaches!
its a known fact that Ireland has been at the bottom of list in Europe for years when it comes to tackling trafficking and really comes as no surprise to anyone and huge pressure been put on Ireland to change this, its dismal
Take Mainland Britain too for example, which has now sex workers coming into the country and with over 50% of all being trafficked mostly poor deceived Romanians.
It really has got out of control, I posted before about even some of the girls in Amsterdam RLD in the windows there now being trafficked, again no surprise to anyone.
Even in Poland in recent years we have sex workers in forests and laneways outside of the cities and clients thinking they are Polish girls who have moved out but no they're all trafficked Romanians and Albanians girls and some very young too so its a European / worldwide problem that really does need sorting out and I see laws coming into Poland soon and the rest of Europe too and further afield as what else can be done.
Pimps and traffickers are the scourge of society and have become more ruthless and determined.
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I've a research programme ongoing that is also funded by the Department of Justice.
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Nice one. I expect that'll actually be an objective piece of research
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An article in the current issue of The Phoenix magazine takes a somewhat different approach to the Irish Times on that UCD report.
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A TALE OF TWO REPORTSAn article in the current issue of The Phoenix magazine takes a somewhat different approach to the Irish Times on that UCD report.
LAST MONTH the Irish Times reported on a review of the impact of anti-prostitution legislation enacted in 2017. The report, from UCD's Sexual Exploitation Research Programme, turns out to have remarkably different conclusions to a similar review across the border.
The editorial in the Irish Times, headlined "Signs of a Cultural Shift", referred to the report's conclusion that the 2017 legislation had made a "very promising" start in interrupting the demand for prostitution. Significantly, however, the report — funded to the tune of E75,000 by the Department of Justice — did not include any interviews with women who identify as sex workers or with any representatives from the Sex Workers Alliance of Ireland (SWAT).
Co-author Ruth Breslin told Goldhawk that virtual interviews would have been required and these were not deemed safe. She also noted "most women in prostitution do not adopt 'sex worker' as their identity". The UCD report, she said, focused on data provided by the anti-prostitution NGO Ruhama and the HSE.
A letter to the Irish Times from Kate McGrew of SWAI criticised the paper's reporting on the UCD review and also pointed to the increase in violence since the change in the law. Certainly, the approach by the UCD team contrasts with that taken by Queen's University Belfast —(QUB), which produced its own, rather different, report on the impact of similar legislation introduced in 2015 in Northern Ireland outlawing the purchase of sex.
The QUB report was published last year and threw its net rather wider, including extensive online surveys of 'sex workers' as well as clients, which "contributed in no small measure to the robustness of this research". The authors also thanked the website uglymugs.ie (which claims to "support the right of sex workers to engage in their work as safely as possible") as well as Lazarus Trading SL, for providing anonymised data from its Escort Ireland website.
Rather than a "very promising" start, the QUB review found that the legislation had had "little effect on the supply of or demand for sexual services", but that there had been "an increase in the number of reports in relation to assaults, sexual assaults and threatening behaviour".
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HIV Ireland released a study /research paper recently also
There is no point in Kate (SWAI) criticising any of these articles as simply won't be listened to.
SWAI needs to stop playing down Trafficking as if its not a problem and fighting for Brothels as losing support as we all know that these are the places were most attacks occur.
Its where the Sex Worker is most at risk
SWAI needs to adopt different tactics.
Ok you won't overturn what is already in place but you can make it better for all Sex Workers and help all directly and indirectly at the same time
None of the Nordic laws will be overturned. That is for sure.
Reports are not always accurate but we all know what we can do to help a little to this ever growing problem, we can't rely on any group, its up to us and YES we can make it better for ourselves and the sex workers
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