Paying for Sex

They might be lebsians. Or have some sort of vague decency about them....

Personally, if a girl offered me money for sex I'd be flattered, I wouldn't do it simply because I don't really think paying for sex is a good thing, but I'd certainly be happy that a girl thought I was good enough to pay money for

I honestly can't believe the ignorance of some of the posters on this thread. Kernel, go look at some of the websites on-line, particularly the escort sites with "independent" in the title (i.e. the working girls that work for themselves rather than a pimp). You'll find that many of these girls actually travel here from England, book into a hotel and have clients come visit them there. No explotiation there(unless you consider €200 for an hour's "services" to be exploitation of the desperate/kinky).

It's a profession for many women. Trafficking of women is abhorrant, as is pimping drug addicts to "allow" them support their habit and it's those on their moral high-horse that allow this to happen. A legislated and controlled prostitution industry would drastically reduce the instances of this but unfortunately some people believe that their moral or religious beliefs should apply to everyone.

Let me ask you a question Kernel, would you mind if your sister/mother worked for Nike? Nestle? Texaco? Shell? All four of these companies have been involved in mass violations of human rights (up to and including murder if journalistic reports are to be believed). Would you rather have a family member involved in this than in the consensual trade of money for sex? If so, I recommend you have a long hard look at yourself.

What's the difference between paying someone to give you a massage or paying them to fellate you? Both are services involving physical intimacy with a stranger that satisfy a desire for pleasure and relaxation.

The assertation that all prostitutes are only involved in the industry due to coercion or drug addiction is laughable. As Finfacts pointed out: "[the studies being quoted] are biased: they tend to be carried out by staff at drop-in centres and by the police, who tend to see the most troubled streetwalkers. Taking their clients as representative of all prostitutes is like assessing the state of marriage by sampling shelters for battered women." With rates of over a thousand euro for a single nights work (over twice my weekly salary) it's quite easy to see why some women choose this line of work.

Now, before you accuse me of depravity (or whatever else you consider utilising prostitutes services to be), I don't use escorts, prostitutes, callgirls, hookers or whatever else you'd like to call them. I do find the notion of plying a girl with drink until she's incapable of refusing your sexual advances far more repellant but I've never found it necessary to do either. I just did my research before making a prolonged post on this topic. A quick google on the words Irish and Independent will give you most of the information you need tbh. No-ones moral standpoint is a valid rebuttal of reason and until you can provide *reasoned* argument for the continued legislative relegation of the prostitution industry to the black market I suggest you don't post in this thread again.