Firstly, I take encouragement from the way criminalisation has worked (or not worked) in Northern Ireland where the god bothering bigots and feminazis managed to bring in a version of the discredited ‘Swedish Model’ about eight years ago. After a brief initial dip in the amount of punting, people found that the Police Service Northern Ireland had neither the resources nor the motivation to go after people engaging in consensual sex for money.
There have been, I think, eight prosecutions in as many years. These, apparently, have been of egregious individuals; traffickers, kiddie fiddlers and the like. Otherwise, it’s business as usual. Check out the NI section on here.
The obstacle to prosecutions, apart from the issue of police resources, is an evidential one, as escorts have proved unwilling to rat out their clients.
Secondly, the good legislators of the Scottish Parley will have to formulate how to deal with women who pay other women for sex (surely the First Minister will have robust views on this), with men who hire TS escorts or men who hire men. The latter cannot justify a ban on the basis that it represents ‘violence against women’ which is, in any case, an entirely false narrative.
