Help us with the Turn off the Blue Lights Campaign - Your comments required urgently

[Morpheus]

Kevin Myers of the (Independent.ie) eloquent analysis of proposed new bill on escorting:

Kevin Myers: Rampantte Rabbitte has to learn that moralising prohibitions upon human appetites never work - Kevin Myers, Columnists - Independent.ie

[BustyLuLu]

Criminalizing the purchase of an independent would cause a life of poverty for the girls who can't work.
Many clients would be afraid to post here or to purchase services. It would cause the women who remain to do extras and dangerous things in order to compete for the clients that remain. The advert section of this site may be charged with aiding criminals. As a result of fear independents adverts may be vague as to what they offer causing conflict between themselves and their clients. Independents would have a harder time warning each other about bad clients etc when everything would be forced to go further underground. Many girls will turn to pimps believing they can be a lookout for police or give them places to work out of exacerbating the situation. If two people can have a one night stand, a person can commit adultery or have an abortion without being prosecuted then by all means two consenting adults can do as they please in private. If there's a third party that takes money from their session, that is wrong in my eyes and should be the only act criminalized.

[Morpheus]

Has the "Turn off the blue lights" campaign been launched? I thought today was the day?

[bhoywonder]

was launched today. got a poster at work for it

[madjack]

Laws in ireland are a joke. The only reason they want to crimalise this service is because they cannot collect tax from it. I know i have said this before that i have been using escorts long before e.i and believe me i know what i am talking about. Who the fuck do they think they are trying to tell the likes of me what i can or can't buy with my money. Why didn't they call the bankers, developer,s politicians etc criminals. Now they trying to make name's for themselves before election etc. I am strictly against pimps,under age girls paedofiles [probably spelt that word wrong] .I am a married man sleeping alone and no person or law will stop me for paying for the company of an escort who are willing and doing so of their own choice. If i go to a hotel or an appartment to see an escort are they going to stand in the room to see if i hand over cash , a load of bollox which will never i hope be passed. If it does it will not worry me as i will continue as usual and fuck them all as they will have a hell of a job proving anything. I am Irish and i am sick to the of the teeth of pricks trying to tell us what we can or cant do. Any girl that i have been with and everything was consintual and i am mad at all this shit that they go on with. Sorry about the language but what do they want me to do without sex ,for me it would drive me off my game. john

[mellors]

Hasn't this already been well covered in the 'Writing to the Metro' post. There were some excellent informed discussion threads on there, surely you could use samples from there for your campaign ?

[OnlyMe]

Sex is like air.
Everything is ok until you're not getting any

[Rodney69]

What did the big campaign launch involve today.
Was it publicised anywhere in the media to get attention.
Thanks

[Sexy Sandy 69]

As an escort this law will do the complete opposite of what it proposes, it will leave those who need help & protection more vunerable.

If you make it a criminal offense to visit an escort, you will play right into the hands of those who already traffick girls, this law will make no difference to them.

If you force 'true independents' to only to do outcalls, you leave us more suspectible to attacks, sexual & non sexual, beatings, rape, kidnap all of which happen already on an alarming regualr basis, however we do have the safety of where we are working from, we do not have to travel to an address we do not know.

This website is very proactive in helping keep escorts safe, we are made aware of attacks & the details as soon as possible, this helps protect us. Your bill will not. We do not deserve to have this added risk, this work is already dangerous enough.

If you want to do something to protect girls who are trafficked, why not make it legal to register for a licence to work as an escort in this country, therefore anyone without a licence can be prosecuted. Take a look at how Amsterdam regulates the sex industry, they register all their escorts, health checks compulsory, location of girls known, this is a more logical answer to trafficking than to criminalize it.

Sandy.

[fiatpunter]

I've stopped listening to Tom Dunne.

hope it helps...