Senator calls for immediate consultation on prostitution

Published: Thursday, February 09, 2012

SEANAD: AN RTÉ documentary on prostitution raised profound questions as to how such widespread activity, presumably known to the Garda, could be revealed but was not being prosecuted, Katherine Zappone (Ind) said.

Prime Time Investigates exposed the chilling reality for hundreds of women who were brought to Ireland and moved from town to town on a regular basis.

It dispelled the myth women were working independently, showing that they were threatened, coerced and effectively enslaved by pimps. It showed, too, that criminalising the women involved did nothing to dismantle the sophisticated infrastructure of the pimps, who remained untouched.

"There is a very clear gender dimension to this problem, said Ms Zappone. "What happened in the education of men that they think they can buy the bodies of women to have their needs met? What happened to our men that they find this acceptable?"

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