Plans to change NI prostitution and trafficking laws

[Trinity-Belle]

...The bill aims to enhance services for victims as well as making it an offence to pay for sexual services from a prostitute....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19328666

[Simon]

They tried to do this in Scotland recently, didn't they? It didn't get very far then IIRC.

The Scotsman has a short article and a comments page on this (which I couldn't resist]:

http://m.scotsman.com/news/uk/northern-i...-1-2481046

Hilariously, my first attempt was rejected by the auto-censor because it contained the words "prostitute" and "sex" (though "prostitution" seems to be OK).

[MrSmith767]

Why does the BBC always use a picture of 2 women, usually from mid thigh down, with at least one wearing boots to represent 'prostitutes?'

[Trinity-Belle]

Coz that's what prostitutes look like. We hang around in pairs on street corners after dark wearing short skirts and thigh boots. You know... like black men all have dreadlocks and disabled people all need wheelchairs, criminals all wear hoodies and drug users are always painfully thin and covered in bruises. I went and stood on a street corner on my own wearing jeans the other night - people were dreadfully confused.

[davidseven]

MSP Rhoda Grant private members bill failed in June, The NI drive to criminalise paying for pleasure is also a private members bill, so should suffer the same fate.

[davidseven]

This may be of interest. A submission to a government committee regarding Prostitution in Ireland. Its from Ruhama an entity with similar views as the UK's Poppy project, eg working to ultimately outlaw prostitution. The same tired arguments as submitted to the Scottish and Ulster PMB.
http://sexworkie.files.wordpress.com/201...mm_jde.pdf