Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Organisations such as Ruhama do not like to refer to a person as a prostitute because they feel it portrays the person as doing something wrong. However, neither do they use the term "sex worker" because they believe it sanitises something which should be socially discouraged. It tends to use the term "a person in prostitution". I was wondering whether the term "sex worker" implies some kind of attitudinal neutrality?

Does Dr. Freedman believe that in the effort to combat trafficking there is none the less a strong argument that if we criminalise the purchase of sex we inhibit a certain category of people from going with persons in prostitution because they now know that what is going on is illegal? However one deals with it, whether it is a case of the Probation Act or some kind of merciful sanction to take account of the vulnerability or inadequacy of some of the clients Dr. Freedman describes, making it illegal in itself might help make the country a colder house for traffickers.