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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Anyone watch doing money last night? It was a film about human trafficking of sex slaves. Here in northern/sothern lreland.
It was shocking. Never realized this happened. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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According to Ruhama there are quite a few women working in the sex trade here who are victims of trafficking.
I can't remember if it was that organisation or another which released a recording last year of an actress pretending to to a trafficked woman appealing to callers for help, they simply didn't care. |
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"According to Ruhama there are quite a few women working in the sex trade here who are victims of trafficking.
I can't remember if it was that organisation or another which released a recording last year of an actress pretending to to a trafficked woman appealing to callers for help, they simply didn't care. "
Think i saw that. Was that in galway? They put erotic posters around the city with just a name and number. Anyone who called got to a voicemail where the woman explained she has been trafficked and how bad her life is. It was sick the messages that where left. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"According to Ruhama there are quite a few women working in the sex trade here who are victims of trafficking.
I can't remember if it was that organisation or another which released a recording last year of an actress pretending to to a trafficked woman appealing to callers for help, they simply didn't care.
Think i saw that. Was that in galway? They put erotic posters around the city with just a name and number. Anyone who called got to a voicemail where the woman explained she has been trafficked and how bad her life is. It was sick the messages that where left."
I can't remember where it was, it really highlighted how those in the sex trade are just objects to many punters. |
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Last year in the republic the act of paying for sex was criminalised..so people who pay for sex are classed as criminals now whereas before it was the prostitute that was deemed to be the criminal...have not seen the program but sounds like this law hasnt had any effect at all  |
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"Are brothels legal in republic? "
Brothels are Illegal ..there was a new law passed last year that criminalised the purchase of sex..the whole point is to criminalise the buyer of sex as they see the prostitute as the victim |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Most are unaware of the extent of the issue which haa been going on for over 10 yrars and getting bigger and bigger even though authtorities are have more success in prosecution. Its the worlds second largest criminal industry behind drugs and estimated to overtake drug trafficking inside 5 years.
Here less obvious is the male human trafficking which is as big as in numbers as girls... Farm labourers, with 6 to 8 in a caravan working 7 days a week in the middle of no where with passports and any I'd removed from them. Few have any English. Beauty/nail parlours are another common place though on surface seems legit. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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There is no humanity in the men that pay to abuse these women. Or the farmer allowing these men live and work like that.
The traffickers are animals but the people paying for there goods are evil and need stopped. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It was a difficult watch.
Thought it was well portrayed especially in the moving around the country of the "escorts". I knew race week in Galway was notorious for extra "escorts" being brought in to keep the punters of Ballybrit happy.
Pop up "brothels" are everywhere. |
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By *P_80Man
over a year ago
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It's been an ongoing issue in Ireland for years.
Sex work is a difficult issue to deal with.
Some would say legalizing it would get rid of the traffickers but you only have to walk through Amsterdam's Red Light District to see this is not the case. It's clear that most of, if not all, those girls aren't there by choice.
On the other hand, keeping it illegal has it's problems too. No issue has ever been resolved by making it illegal, like the drug problem for example.
Then you have the brother issue in Ireland. The new law makes the buyer the criminal and not the seller. However, selling is only legal if the sex worker resides alone. More than one sex worker on the same premises is classed as a brothel and is illegal.
So, the safety in numbers option for the ladies is illegal, while the more dangerous option of working alone, is allowed. It's messed up.
Also with the new law making the buyer a criminal, no one will ever report a suspected trafficked girl now as they will be admitting guilt.
I'm not saying that the men were reporting before, but whatever chance of it ever being reported is now gone.
There's no easy solution and unfortunately it doesn't look like it's going to be resolved any time soon.
Sorry for the long post but I have a friend who works in social services and she's passionate about this issue so we have discussions on it and I'm just trying to give as much info as I can. |
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