Sexual Offences Act 2017 review - would a petition be worth thinking about ?

[Stephanie]

This thread is so dumb it's hilarious. A bunch of women and lads all under false names are going to put pressure on the government to change the laws. Covid has really fried some of your brains

Benny Benny ..

I had taken the time and gumption : testified before The Committee in the Dail ;

filled out surveys and produced innumerable submissions ;

contributed to a university study ; gave interview ..

Rather broad strokes of that brush you’re wielding !

If We don’t talk about it , who will ?

If on the back of a thread like this even just Some people might take the time

to follow through and fire off some ‘piece of mind’ missives to their

representatives , some day we Might have some change .

Why shoot down others’ concern ? X

[WeeJimmy]

maybe the escorts could get a lend of farmers tractors and slurry tankers and drive to the Dáil in Dublin and create an almighty stink and see what happens

[john40]

Ah go back to sleep Benny boy

[Benny123]

Benny Benny ..

I had taken the time and gumption : testified before The Committee in the Dail ;

filled out surveys and produced innumerable submissions ;

contributed to a university study ; gave interview ..

Rather broad strokes of that brush you’re wielding !

If We don’t talk about it , who will ?

If on the back of a thread like this even just Some people might take the time

to follow through and fire off some ‘piece of mind’ missives to their

representatives , some day we Might have some change .

Why shoot down others’ concern ? X

Ok Steph, point taken, but you will struggle to find any man to put his name and weight behind you. They will all pontificate about what should be done and that includes me but we are not going to tell our Missus/Partner that we am going down to our local T D to try and change the laws on meeting escorts because it would be nice to have some different to do on a Wednesday night rather than watch Coronation street.

[Benny123]

Ah go back to sleep Benny boy

Have many people messaged you privately to lend their support and put their names to the letter, because you are not getting the support on this thread.

[WeeJimmy]

Yet again the governments have made it near impossible for guys to act,
even over here it is different but the same if you know what i mean,
my main GF watching me like a hawk now and think she hired a PI as I keep seeing a guy on a moped following me

[Nononsense111]

Yet again the governments have made it near impossible for guys to act,
even over here it is different but the same if you know what i mean,
my main GF watching me like a hawk now and think she hired a PI as I keep seeing a guy on a moped following me

Keep your wits about you Jimmy!

[WeeJimmy]

Keep your wits about you Jimmy!

maybe its a Hitman

[Scrumhalf9]

As far as I'm aware the Sexual Offences act 2017 is due for a review either later this year or early next (open to correction).

Just wondered what you would all think of bombarding TD's & senators leading up to the review as to the merits of repealing the act and decriminilising the purchase of sexual services ? I know it probably wouldn't make a difference but I thought particularly in light of the publishing of the results of the UL study yesterday. Practically all of the escorts interviewed for the study stated that the legislation was putting their lives in danger and among other recommendations they urged repealing the act and decriminilisation.

I think we need to support them all and make things safer for everyone.

Would we have to bombard them with our actual names tho? They’d hardly be interested in false names or deleted user.

[Coinnigh]

As far as I'm aware the Sexual Offences act 2017 is due for a review either later this year or early next (open to correction).

Just wondered what you would all think of bombarding TD's & senators leading up to the review as to the merits of repealing the act and decriminilising the purchase of sexual services ? I know it probably wouldn't make a difference but I thought particularly in light of the publishing of the results of the UL study yesterday. Practically all of the escorts interviewed for the study stated that the legislation was putting their lives in danger and among other recommendations they urged repealing the act and decriminilisation.

I think we need to support them all and make things safer for everyone.

When this bill was first being investigated in the Oireachtas SWAI completely messed up. On the govt side they had ex Irish sex workers who then worked for or represented different charities. It was easy for them to tell their version of everything.

On the side representing escorts I seem to remember it being represented by two Romanian women who were very prominent on these boards back then. Unfortunately it was very easy for the pro side of the argument to cast them in a bad light.

Instead SWAI should have put forward a few Irish ladies, or at least Western European.