ruhama in the journal.ie

[wexfordboyo]

I had a look at their site for the laugh. They want people to use this photo as their facebook profile picture:
http://www.ruhama.ie/easyedit/files/...ocialmedia.jpg
"Women sell sex because they have to, not because they want to"
Good point by Ruhuma there you might think. Until you think about it for 5 seconds and think that the only reason anyone sells anything in the world is because they have to, not because they want to. The only reason about 99.999% of the worlds population go to work is because they have to. How many peoples alarms go off at 7am and they think "great, work today, nothing in the world I'd rather do today"?

[LaBelleThatcher]

What a waste of space Ruhama are!! The same with the Immigrant Council of Ireland. Does everybody who buys clothes cause forced labour of people making clothes? Cutting the funds of Ruhama was the best thing that ever happened. They are just a blight on society. I think that it is important for all the sex workers who use this site to come forward and state that they are not being exploited. This will send a powerful message to people like Ruhama.

I think the people here make it plain that they are not being exploited every time they say anything...perhaps they should take it a little further and actually state:

• Whether they wish to be involved with Ruhama?
• Whether they feel their views are being represented by Ruhama?

I had a look at their site for the laugh. They want people to use this photo as their facebook profile picture:
http://www.ruhama.ie/easyedit/files/...ocialmedia.jpg
"Women sell sex because they have to, not because they want to"
Good point by Ruhuma there you might think. Until you think about it for 5 seconds and think that the only reason anyone sells anything in the world is because they have to, not because they want to. The only reason about 99.999% of the worlds population go to work is because they have to. How many peoples alarms go off at 7am and they think "great, work today, nothing in the world I'd rather do today"?

I am glad to see you state the obvious in black and white...but what I really want to know is:

If they sell sex because they have to, how is that an argument for taking their market away? Strikes me as more like an argument for leaving their market alone unless you can find a way to expand it!

If somebody really *has* to do something, on which planet does it get to be fair game to make that harder for them?

As for the image...has anyone else noticed that the image on their "FreeIrishWoman" blog is just another, very professional (probably very expensive) approach to the same concept?

The level of blatant deceit they get away with astounds me. Leave aside, for a minute, how people in general feel about sex work and the sex industry, how ON EARTH, does is go on being acceptable to go on pouring public funds into that while essential children's services are being cut? That is just bizarre...

If it means that much to them let the trustee Religious Orders (Good Shepherd and Daughters of Charity) fund it. After all they still refuse to compensate or even apologise to the victims of their Magdalene Laundries and the state is having to pick up the tab for the damage they did there too.

[LaBelleThatcher]

Let me just add something that just unnerved me, if the recession gets any deeper, this is an example of what Ruhama are happy to consciously wish on the lives of the women that, by their own admission, *have to sell sex*:
http://www.rt.com/news/greece-double...de-crisis-136/

I am SO TIRED of safe, privileged, D4 wannabe brats trying to take it upon themselves to dictate the lives of real people who have to live in the real world instead of their charmed lives.

Look at the sh*t they pile on E-I and Pat as a way of life?

Yet whatever else, you may be very sure nobody around here will ever do anything to push anyone into the kind of absolute desperation Ruhama are working towards.

[Jack in the Box]

I think the people here make it plain that they are not being exploited every time they say anything...perhaps they should take it a little further and actually state:

• Whether they wish to be involved with Ruhama?
• Whether they feel their views are being represented by Ruhama?
  
  

I am glad to see you state the obvious in black and white...but what I really want to know is:

If they sell sex because they have to, how is that an argument for taking their market away? Strikes me as more like an argument for leaving their market alone unless you can find a way to expand it!

If somebody really *has* to do something, on which planet does it get to be fair game to make that harder for them?

As for the image...has anyone else noticed that the image on their "FreeIrishWoman" blog is just another, very professional (probably very expensive) approach to the same concept?

The level of blatant deceit they get away with astounds me. Leave aside, for a minute, how people in general feel about sex work and the sex industry, how ON EARTH, does is go on being acceptable to go on pouring public funds into that while essential children's services are being cut? That is just bizarre...

If it means that much to them let the trustee Religious Orders (Good Shepherd and Daughters of Charity) fund it. After all they still refuse to compensate or even apologise to the victims of their Magdalene Laundries and the state is having to pick up the tab for the damage they did there too.

LaBelleThatcher.

Maybe a sort of petition could be organised. If for arguments sake 100 sex workers endorsed a statement saying that they are their own boss in their work, are against criminalisation and do not support Ruhama's position this would be something that could not be ignored. At the moment Ruhama and co. are trying to make out that number of escorts that choose to do their own thing is like the amount of power used up in copper wires.