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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭Andreas77


    Is safe or not? I won't pay money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,090 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    LaFuton wrote: »
    I'll just have a lucazade and an old fashioned ride please oh and 2 packets of cheese and onion cheers

    At least you'll be paying tax on the Lucozade and crisps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,239 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I don't have an issue with them making money while encouraging women to keep their privacy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    I'm guessing OP turned up at the door of "Teenage Magdalina's" apartment and she turned out to be a 'munter' and not the same person as in the website pic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭Feisar



    Reasoned discourse, why I love this site.

    First they came for the socialists...



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 431 ✭✭Dia_Anseo


    Would it not be a lot safer if these girls used non cash payment payments such as SUMUP that the client can just tap and go?...............literally!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Maybe some women don't like the commodification of the human body? You know it's not just "housewives" and whatever that implies, who don't support your prediliction for buying people. By all means comfort yourself with the fallacy that you're doing nothing wrong and supporting nothing sinister and it's only the jealous old Irish mammies getting uptight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,074 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    I thought it was a new ford museum or something interesting...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭bo0li5eumx12kp


    wiggle16 wrote: »
    Why would they?

    You log onto their website because you want to get screwed.

    You can't complain when that's exactly what happens.

    Wrong.

    I don't use it.

    But I believe the presence and acceptance of something which is to many, so morally questionable - it basically plays a huge mind game with the old school/pre-historic culture of a backwards thinking country.

    I want to see it legitimized - but to get there, it needs to lose any stigma of exploitation, double dealing, fraudulence - things that are intuitively and historically associated with some form of underhandedness and/or criminality.

    Why would they?

    Why would they what?

    Conduct a more responsible and ethical business model, albeit for marginally compromised remunerative takings?

    lolwut?

    If your local pub were watering down drinks so they could spend less and earn more, would you think that's okay as well?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭bo0li5eumx12kp


    Maybe some women don't like the commodification of the human body? You know it's not just "housewives" and whatever that implies, who don't support your prediliction for buying people. By all means comfort yourself with the fallacy that you're doing nothing wrong and supporting nothing sinister and it's only the jealous old Irish mammies getting uptight.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Wait they named and shamed some poor oul pensioner whose only crime was being lonely ??

    jaysus


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    Wrong.

    I don't use it.

    I meant the royal "you".


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭bo0li5eumx12kp


    wiggle16 wrote: »
    I meant the royal "you".

    Do you apply the same sense of morality whilst you're moderating the personal-issues forum?

    ....

    :pac:

    Just joking homie.

    I should have said, "I don't use it........ any more".

    My central nervous system seems to respond better to totally above board, legitimate massage parlors at the moment.

    Their (EI) interest is money.
    My interest is societal impact.
    Fraudulence is something that needs a light shone on it - simple.

    Public opinion implicates ministerial decisions, and then button men take their orders.

    Now - say, 6 mill per year, that's 0.5 mill per month, say an average of 125,000 euro turnover, per week.
    On sales alone.
    Say 400 escorts, with an average of 10 clients per day - male demographic of about 1.8 million of consenting age or above.

    That's about 1.5% of the male population attending escorts each week - assuming each client attends once a week - probably a little on the high side.
    More like once a month, in which case it evens out at closer to 6% of the male population uses sex workers regularly.

    Which is close enough to 1 out of every 17 males - say 1 in 20, to err on the conservative side.

    1 in every 20 men uses sex workers in Ireland.

    Say 400 workers taking an average of 100 per client at 10 clients per day - 400,000 euro total daily turnover.
    2.8 million weekly turnover - about 150 million annually on men getting their jollies.
    And that's just their side of the story - doesn't include living expenditure, transport etc.

    ....

    Suffice to say, this is big business - BIG business.
    Clandestined business, but ever present.

    I'd love to see the audit - that's all I'm saying.


  • Posts: 3,280 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    LaFuton wrote: »
    any Black Friday deals going?

    asking for a friend in crossmolina

    no black Friday deals but I think an Asian tuesday one coming up soon.:D


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    Do you apply the same sense of morality whilst you're moderating the personal-issues forum?

    :pac:

    You should be pleased to know that I do, in fact. If a person behaves badly then they have to accept the consequences, and hopefully learn from the experience.

    As I said earlier I AM GREAT FUN AREN'T I


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭bo0li5eumx12kp


    wiggle16 wrote: »
    If a person behaves badly then they have to accept the consequences

    Ice cold bro.

    Ice cold.


    PS - was I the only person that read that in a kind of sinister/ominous tone of voice??


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    PS - was I the only person that read that in a kind of sinister/ominous tone of voice??

    Oh. You mean like Tim Curry's demon character's voice in Legend?



    That's me. Modding.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,239 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    wiggle16 wrote: »
    Oh. You mean like Tim Curry's demon character's voice in Legend?



    That's me. Modding.
    i like the breathy part at t he start


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭Austria!


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


    No it isn't. It's illegal for escorts to share premises but not to work alone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Dual wheels


    Down with that sort of thing


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,609 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Austria! wrote: »
    No it isn't. It's illegal for escorts to share premises but not to work alone.

    Exactly, selling your body is not illegal. Running a brothel is. Being part of a brothel is. Paying for sex is. But selling it as an individual isn't.

    The lad that owns this, ex-cop from NI, Peter McCormick, has moved the website hosting from Ireland to the UK, then to Wales and now in Spain due to changes in legislation. The only information I can find is that he made an annual turnover of over €6 million in 2015, but unclear if this is just from the Irish website, or the many other sister sites he has across the EU.

    I take it they pay to host on the site? Whatever way he gets paid, it's quite lucrative for him. And his missus is in on it too. They had something like 20 'sex' businesses registered to their house in Bray at one stage, but legislation got rid of most of them.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭bo0li5eumx12kp


    Exactly, selling your body is not illegal. Running a brothel is. Being part of a brothel is. Paying for sex is. But selling it as an individual isn't.

    The lad that owns this, ex-cop from NI, Peter McCormick, has moved the website hosting from Ireland to the UK, then to Wales and now in Spain due to changes in legislation. The only information I can find is that he made an annual turnover of over €6 million in 2015, but unclear if this is just from the Irish website, or the many other sister sites he has across the EU.

    I take it they pay to host on the site? Whatever way he gets paid, it's quite lucrative for him. And his missus is in on it too. They had something like 20 'sex' businesses registered to their house in Bray at one stage, but legislation got rid of most of them.

    Doesn't "ugly mugs" trade under their name also?

    As in, the workers protective phone app that allows them to screen calls from potential thieves/serial killers/arsonists etc?

    So I guess it's not all bad.

    But as per the OP, they still undercut in a manner that would be scandalized in any other business model, endorsing fraud and, you know...... chicanery, in the name of profits.


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