Originally Posted by
fishermansoul
Marches and protests - who do you think would go on such a march, clients? escorts?
The fact is that the news presents people with what they want to hear. There is an established narrative that they follow.
In order to present a story to people on TV or the newspaper it has to be completely dumbed down. If you, I or Patricia were to go on the radio advocating safe escorting, to the average person you would sound like you were asking to legalise child abuse. It wouldn't follow the narrative and for that reason alone you wouldn't get any airtime.
You talk about legalised prostitution, well actually escorting is not illegal in this country. What is illegal is brothels.
Prostitution is in fact illegal nearly everywhere.
The latest fad is criminalising punting, which has come from Sweden. Apparently it really works to shut down independent escorts. It has found a lot of support in so called "liberal" circles because instead of arresting the women which sounds bad you are arresting their livelyhood, who are indefensible evil rapists.
Don't be surprised if a law criminalising the clients of escorts is introduced in Ireland. I expect us to be WAY ahead of the UK on this. It is exactly the kind of thing the politicians love to promote. Sorry the economy is fucked, but at least we eliminated the escort industry - result!