#MeToo Means Standing By The Most Marginalised. It’s Time To End Prostitution

Today marks the first anniversary of Ireland’s Sex Buyer’s Law - the Act that makes criminals of those who control and use prostituted women.Changing the legislation required a hard-fought battle led by survivors of the sex trade, against an organised and vocal industry.  Ireland’s law is now the inverse of current UK law, which criminalises the women who sell sex, rather than those who purchase it.I find it extraordinary that the purchase of a woman’s body for sex i