Decriminalisation and licencing not Criminalisation…
On October 20th 2014 there was a bill passed in Northern Ireland with proposed a ban on paying for sex. The outline of this bill was to criminalise paying for sex in a bid to reduce human trafficking.
This is not yet law yet and still has a long way to go – if you read the media you will see headlines likes 'Paying for sex is to be banned' and all the media bollocks and scaremongering that goes on. All that has happened is a bill has been put through to be passed through the bureaucratic process prior to a legal outcome been decided.
It is therefore still at this point legal to pay for sex in Northern Ireland.
I understand and support the need to stop human trafficking for reasons that need no explanation but think that the people who make decisions need to understand the difference between the likes of myself an independent escort offering a mutually agreeable service with fabulous clients and the gangs who run human trafficking exploiting unwilling victims for their own self gain.
I fail to see the comparison and feel that an outright ban is not the way forward. Criminalising Clients is neither, constructive or helpful and only drives an underground industry further underground. Decriminalisation and licencing on the other hand is a less draconian way forward as it would allow the authorities to focus their efforts on trafficked and coerced sex workers getting help to those who need it and delivering harsher penalties for the people behind the trafficking. I believe that human trafficking in the country is fuelled by lack of licencing.
It could be argued that there are some people using the argument to stop trafficking have a hidden agenda to enforce a ban on paying for sex outright and there is no real interest in actually stopping trafficking it is just been used as a decoy to enforce the outright ban. I say this because as I have previously said there is a strong contrast between what I do consensually and others do that have been trafficked. Surely it would make more sense to placed resources into focusing on trafficked victims and making penalties higher for the people behind trafficking instead of the whole industry.
Imagine if every sex worker had to be registered on a national database with a unique number – Imagine if this number had to be published on all adverts and you could tap in the number to check registration details and last test results – how much safer would the industry be then??? Imagine if when ladies register they had to provide a passport copy, national insurance number and signature to say they were working at their own free will. Maybe there are flaws in the idea and maybe it is not cost effective but it is just a train of thought of alternatives that would focus attention where it needed to be focused instead of criminalising the innocent easy to target individuals instead of the organised gangs who conduct human trafficking?
Again I feel that decisions are been made about and industry that is not fully understood by the decision makers, I totally support the need to stop human trafficking as it is a terrible bi product of an unregulated market. I think the politicians need to take a good long hard look in the mirror and ask themselves a very simple question – will criminalisation of people paying for sex stop human trafficking or drive it more underground and make it more profitable for the gangs behind it? An honest answer would be no but then again we are talking politician here and answering a simple question in simple terms and giving an honest answer is something they appear to be very inadequate at.
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