https://www.citizensinformation.ie/e...alties%20apply.
This is the ‘law’ …interestingly as I see it…if you take this to a human rights court you’re very likely to win your case. Based on a number of aspects.
1. Consensual sex between two adults could and should never be a crime whether money is exchanged or not.
2. No one can ever prove that a ‘buyer’ of sex actually paid for the sex unless there’s a third party present to witness the transaction. Money found on the premises is not evidence that this money was exchanged for sex, just that it is there.
3. The whole premise for questioning anyone entering or leaving a certain property is against that person’s basic human rights and only serves to intimidate that person to answer questions they have no obligation to do.
And I’m sure a good lawyer could come up with pages and pages of arguments that this is a violation of people’s basic human rights.
The above should of course not be taken as a condonation of the criminality in sexwork that is clearly present. The problem is however that the ‘punter’ also maybe the victim of those crimes just as the sexworker is. The crime should not be sexwork. Many young women and men are also used as cheap labour where people are trafficked to work as cleaners, maids, etc where passports are being held back and other criminality such as rape takes place. In those cases the victim of those practices do not commit a crime by working for someone. Cleaning is not a crime, serving someone is not a crime as much as having consensual sex, paid or not is not a crime. It’s the peripheral activities by third parties that are often criminal.
That’s why for example in the Netherlands prostitution or sexwork is de criminalised.