You visit Escort Ireland - have you complaints with their business model?

First it's important to recognize that, escorting is currently illegal in Ireland.

Not allowed by law.

Currently deemed socially unacceptable.

They'll slap you in cuffs, take you to the station - hell they might even put your name in the paper (especially if you're socially weak/isolated/vulnerable - like the pensioner whom the justice system publically named and shamed earlier this year).


My issue with the sex work paradigm currently in effect, is not the constantly rehashed argument as to its legal status, no. That I understand.
My real issue is, the intrinsic structure the monopolistic website promotes;

It endorses fraudulence.

How does it do this?

It's revenue is based on the purchase of webspace via sex workers.
Each profile takes X amount of revenue.

To increase its profit margin, it encourages workers to take out more than one profile.
Whether that were to advertise two different services, such as an escort service, in tandem with a massage service.
Or simply to promote multiple profiles using a series of plagiarized images of.... instagram models, pornographic actresses, their friends?
Whomever.

It endorses, encourages, and facilitates this fraudulence, deceptively using a "verified photo" system as a means to fabricate an image of integrity (this system is of course bogus and ineffective, nor is it enforced. It's basically like a scam on top of the scam).


Now - I get it - society at large, in particular housewives, they don't like prostitution.

It's like saying, "nobody like promiscuous women" or, "nobody likes a slut".
When we all know the reality is - most of us like one from time to time.

My point is - fraudulence and deceptive practice would be scandalized and exposed in any other large scale business model.

My understanding is, this website has an annual turnover - in the millions.

MILLIONS.

Hundreds of thousands of euro (that's 6 figures) - every single week.

Irish revenue does not benefit from it's existence but, that's their own fault as the justice system (or more specifically, the personalities in the justice system) refuse to accept it is as a form of legitimate business.

Further to the justice systems position relative to the practice of sex-for-money, the monopolistic promoters willingness to engage in fraudulence - I mean, obviously is in and of itself effectively the definition of criminality and a scam - but additionally it facilitates pimping, gang operation, coercion - as it obstructs the practice of genuine independent workers and, in some cases, can be used as a means of extortion against vulnerable clientele.


TD Catherine Byrne (minister of health promotion), in addition to TD Charlie Flanagan (minister for justice), in addition to TD Simon Harris (minister for health) - their tag-line is,

"We are a promoting a safer, healthier, more inclusive environment for all".

If there was a restaurant chain, or a drug store, or any lucrative outlet, that was undercutting its customers and squeezing their suppliers in the name of higher profit margins - would that be okay?

So, in a business that eclipses the vast majority of medium to large sized Irish companies in terms of annual financial turnover - can someone help me understand - why is that okay?