Northern Ireland consultation on Prostitution.

[MollyM]

Consultation paper here - http://www.facebook.com/democraticun...p_182667455607

[justfrank44]

Christ, talk about a sweeping statement on prostitution, It seems no one is involved out of their own free will, they are either trafficked or desperate. I wonder has he even asked any of the women their opinion.Stupid question I suppose.

[Jack in the Box]

Will there be a process of sending submissions in Northern Ireland similiar to what has happened in the Republic?

Most of us know that there is a divided community in the North there however unionists need to start supporting another unionist candidate instead of that Lord Morrow muppet. He should listen to some of the escorts on this website and they might educate him.

It would be no harm for us no matter where we live to start emailing members of the Northern Ireland Assembly and getting active in other ways as changes there could possibly undo any progress we have made in the South.

[toya]

totally agree with you on that one we should all stand unite on this matter

[mick_1001]

I've been out the last few weekends with a girl I met recently. I have taken her to dinner, bought her gifts and had some great sex with her. Even though she is not an escort this could be technically construed as paying for sex. Heaven help all those married men out there because soon enough their wives will have a good excuse to have them arrested!!!

[Wicklow37]

We are all paying for it one way or another. By seeing an escort you are cutting out a few of variables involved.

[theqm]

Just saw this on Belfast Telegraph website, submitted by a School of Law lecturer at Queens University Belfast.
Perhaps Mr Morrow should read it & take note.


Lord Morrow’s sponsoring of a Private Members’ Bill to make the payment for sex illegal in Northern Ireland is likely to be as unworkable as it is counter- productive.

It is going to cost an inordinate sum of money and resources to administer. There are also a number of practical issues: how is it going to be policed?

Is the onus going to be on the purchaser to prove that ‘he’ didn't pay? (Though, of course, there are women who also pay for sex).

What if both parties claim the sex was consensual without any money changing hands? Only a tiny percentage of sex work involves street prostitution: the overwhelming bulk has moved to the internet.

Who is going to monitor the literally thousands of advertisements from sex workers appearing daily? How are we to know if money changed hands in any of these encounters?

Evidence from Sweden that changed its own laws about a decade ago to criminalise the payment for sex is patchy at best.

All that it seems to have done is displace prostitution to Norway and Denmark and make it more invisible via the internet.

Victims of sex-trafficking are wheeled out by Lord Morrow as a justification for a change in the law. I can't help feeling, though, that for Lord Morrow there is more to it than that.

Nevertheless, religious fervour rarely leads to good law.

The PSNI has enough powers to go after pimps and traffickers as it stands — and they should use them.

School of Law

Queen's University, Belfast

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/op...-16209455.html