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Would you support your son/daughter child becoming a prostitute?

  • 14-07-2017 12:49AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,288 ✭✭✭✭


    So, if Ireland was to make the sale of sex legal. Would you like your son or daughter to do it for a living?
    We often read threads with people saying Ireland should legalise it.

    Would you support your son/daughter child becoming a prostitute?

    Would you support your son/daughter child becoming a prostitute? 26 votes

    Yes
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    No
    100% 26 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,591 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    I'd hope they would earn enough to support themselves.



    And no, it's not a career I'd choose for my children when they grow up.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    No way!



    Edit: Sorry OP - I thought you said Protestant!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭mikeybrennan


    No


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I'd be happier that they were doing it legally (and in a safe environment), rather than illegally (with all the added dangers that inevitably brings).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Once they were going in with their eyes open and working independently then yes. There should be no stigma to selling sexual services ( or buying it)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 672 ✭✭✭pangbang


    But would your prostitute support your son/daughter becoming a child?


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd support them but I probably wouldn't avail of their services.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    If they wanted to be a hooker and hoped to represent Ireland I'd tell them to jump at the opportunity.


  • Site Banned Posts: 96 ✭✭Sven Hassel


    No I'd be disgusted.


  • Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Childless man answer: No. Because I don't want my children, male or female, exposed to vulnerable, potentially violent situations. I'd also hate any child of mine to become a doorman or a Garda.

    Father answer: NO MAN WILL EVER TOUCH MY DAUGHTER.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Nope.

    Prostitution is a seedy seedy game. Full of coke-heads, mentally messed-up people, tarts and a-holes.... let's not sugar coat things. So why would anyone support their child involved in something like that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,410 ✭✭✭1874


    with the kind of people that avail of those services and even with protection, the kind of stds that are becoming prevalent, just read about super gonorrehea! :eek:
    Id definitely be steering them away from it, but it'd be long before they reached the point in time where they were likely to be sprining this on me as a surprise.
    Thinking about it, if the catholic institutions and mentality really wanted to prevent young people from having sex going back to and before I was young, they should have being promoting sex education, a lot of what I'm reading now about STD's is damn scary, re untreatable antibitotic resistant strains.


  • Site Banned Posts: 30 Bhubaneswar


    No, has any Jaysus said yes yet?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Kate's Father: I'm sad because, my darling, our poverty has reached such extremes that I can no longer afford to keep us and must look to my own dear tiny darling to sustain me in my frail dotage.

    Kate: But father surely...

    Kate's Father: Yes, Kate. I want you to become a prostitute.

    Kate: Never! Father.

    Kate's Father: Do you defy me?

    Kate: Indeed I do for tis better to die poor than to live in shame and ignominy.

    Kate's Father: No it isn't.

    Kate: I'm young and strong, clever, my nose is pretty. I shall find another way to earn a living.

    Kate's Father: Oh please go on the game. It's a steady job and you'd be working from home.


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    KungPao wrote: »
    Kate's Father: I'm sad because, my darling, our poverty has reached such extremes that I can no longer afford to keep us and must look to my own dear tiny darling to sustain me in my frail dotage.

    Kate: But father surely...

    Kate's Father: Yes, Kate. I want you to become a prostitute.

    Kate: Never! Father.

    Kate's Father: Do you defy me?

    Kate: Indeed I do for tis better to die poor than to live in shame and ignominy.

    Kate's Father: No it isn't.

    Kate: I'm young and strong, clever, my nose is pretty. I shall find another way to earn a living.

    Kate's Father: Oh please go on the game. It's a steady job and you'd be working from home.

    Something about having breakfast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Once they were going in with their eyes open...

    Might be easier with them closed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Only if they offered a discount.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 964 ✭✭✭123shooter


    1874 wrote: »
    with the kind of people that avail of those services and even with protection, the kind of stds that are becoming prevalent, just read about super gonorrehea! :eek:
    .......a lot of what I'm reading now about STD's is damn scary, re untreatable antibitotic resistant strains.

    I should imagine your son or daughter is more at risk of such diseases on a Friday or Saturday night after too much drink with a local girl in the back of a car than with someone who does it for a living.

    Besides those diseases have been around as long as humans have existed and until recently there was no drugs to treat them. It never stopped people having unprotected sex with anyone and it never stopped people selling or using sex to obtain money or other. Penicillin wasn't discovered until 1928 so not even 100 years yet and humans around for how long, millions of years?

    If you live your life by newspaper headlines you will certainly go nuts!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Would you support your son/daughter child becoming a prostitute?

    NO.


  • Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So, if Ireland was to make the sale of sex legal. Would you like your son or daughter to do it for a living?

    That would depend on whether they themselves want to be doing it. I would not "like" my child to end up in a career they do not want to be in. I would like my child to end up in a career that they want to be in - and chose for themselves.

    And if that is a career somewhere in the sex industry - they I would be as entirely ok with that as any other choice they make for themselves - and I would support them in the same way there as I would anywhere else.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    No, it's a rough job, it can be dangerous to the individual and there's a thick layer of social shame to it that can't help but make someone's life harder. It is a dead-end job at best and can be deadly at worst. Plus it is opening them up to all the awful aspects of life that can push someone on the game, like drugs and the seedier elements that come with that.

    There will always be prostitution and prostitutes and a very small percentage of them might be doing it because they actually enjoy it as a career choice, but I wouldn't particularly encourage someone to experiment with it to see if they are one of that small percentage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 964 ✭✭✭123shooter


    Samaris wrote: »
    No, it's a rough job, it can be dangerous to the individual and there's a thick layer of social shame to it that can't help but make someone's life harder.

    Interesting
    but only if you allow others to know and really should we go around living our lives as to what OTHERS think we should? [/QUOTE]
    It is a dead-end job

    We all do plenty of them I am afraid.
    ...........at best and can be deadly at worst.

    I wouldn't say it's anywhere near as dangerous as working on a building site or other hazardous occupation.
    Plus it is opening them up to all the awful aspects of life that can push someone on the game, like drugs

    Could say the same about doctors, nurses and vets or anyone with free access to drugs.
    ...........and the seedier elements that come with that.

    What are these?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I have no problem with prostitution - I think it should be entirely legal, but no I wouldn't want my daughter (or son for that matter) to be one.

    I see no contradiction whatsoever in that. I wouldn't like my son to be a fireman for example - I don't think firemen should be banned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Game Face MCGee


    So, if Ireland was to make the sale of sex legal. Would you like your son or daughter to do it for a living?

    That would depend on whether they themselves want to be doing it. I would not "like" my child to end up in a career they do not want to be in. I would like my child to end up in a career that they want to be in - and chose for themselves.

    And if that is a career somewhere in the sex industry - they I would be as entirely ok with that as any other choice they make for themselves - and I would support them in the same way there as I would anywhere else.
    you're touched mate,


  • Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    you're touched mate,

    Anything to add to that - other than random personal comments? Did you post get chopped off at the end by the system maybe? The comma suggests there was more but somehow it did not post?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Unless the new legislation has been enacted prostitution is and has been legal for a long time. The contracts are probably unenforceable though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Game Face MCGee


    you're touched mate,

    Anything to add to that - other than random personal comments? Did you post get chopped off at the end by the system maybe? The comma suggests there was more but somehow it did not post?
    not at all, I dont think i need to elaborate any further, someone who would actively encourage/refrain from discouraging his son or daughter to become a prostitute is touched in the head, in my opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 964 ✭✭✭123shooter


    Unless the new legislation has been enacted prostitution is and has been legal for a long time. The contracts are probably unenforceable though.

    I wonder just like many other laws if someone could explain as to why a law was introduced making it illegal to use part of your body for reward:)

    Would the same apply to manual workers, footballers etc etc?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    So, if Ireland was to make the sale of sex legal. Would you like your son or daughter to do it for a living?
    We often read threads with people saying Ireland should legalise it.

    Would you support your son/daughter child becoming a prostitute?

    A child prostitute?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 964 ✭✭✭123shooter


    not at all, I dont think i need to elaborate any further, someone who would actively encourage/refrain from discouraging his son or daughter to become a prostitute is touched in the head, in my opinion.

    What do you see wrong with being a prostitute or other kind of sex worker/porn star.


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