For that, the 5'6" bisexual, who advertises her vital statistics as 36B-24-34,
offers a range of services including role reversal, spanking, uniforms and
other more lurid offerings on her website, which features a series of
photographs of her, mostly topless.
Based in Dublin, she services Dublin Airport, does not do call-outs, offers
on-street parking, showers and drinks.
She is just one of more than 800 women currently offering sex for as much as
?400 per hour. Loopholes in Irish law allows the women to use the internet to
broadcast scantily clad pictures of themselves, detail the vast range of
services which they offer, their price ranges and most crucially their mobile
phone number.
While the women claim the more respectable title of escorts working in escort
agencies, the service that many offer would indicate they are prostitutes often
working in brothels with up to 25 women in each.
The industry is thriving because men are prepared to spend the ?150
per-half-hour average price the woman, and in a very few cases men, are asking.
The more exclusive women charge as much as ?500 per hour.
That compares with as little as ?25 per session with women working in the legal
red light district in Amsterdam.
The escorts are operating out of private apartments and houses, hotels, even
commercial premises which describe themselves as massage parlours. In most
cases the premises are close to the city centre or in the nearby suburbs.
In Cork, several operate only a stone's throw away from the city's Opera House
while others are in lanes close to the main shopping street, Patrick Street.
One of their busiest times is lunchtime when the middle-class professionals,
their typical customers, are able to go for a session before returning to work.
By only publishing mobile phone numbers they are almost untraceable to the
punters. In order to find an agency for the first time, the men are told to
stand in a certain place and ring the agency once more so that the women can
see the punter before engaging their services.
Anyone who contacts them must use an unblocked number to avoid "timewasters"
who might make a bogus appointment or pose a threat.
One thing that links the apartments, hotels and houses where they ply their
trade is that they are only transient. They do not stay long in one place as
the comings and goings attract attention.
The websites on which the women promote themselves are not illegal because the
majority are licensed and the owners addressed outside the State.
That means they can give every detail, no matter how sordid, of what the women
will offer, with immunity from prosecution under Irish law.
As the owners of irishindependentescorts.com point out: "This site is not
hosted in the Republic of Ireland and both owners live in a country where it is
perfectly legal.
"The escorts listed on this site do not work for us, we just make their
information freely available to the public."
For that service, the website owners are paid ?100 per month for independent
escorts and ?300 per month for agencies.
One of the most popular of the sites for both punter and escort is
www.escort-ireland.com.
It is the creation of former Dublin escort, Patricia Albright and was
established in 1998. The website, which describes itself as the product of a
"reputable and fully registered UK company," claims to be the biggest in
Ireland. It is obviously doing well. It has expanded to include
Escort-england.com, Escort-Scotland.com and Escort-Wales.com.
The site boasts: "Today we have 381 Irish Female Escorts, nine Irish Male
Escorts, one Irish Transsexual Escort, two Irish Transvestite Escorts, six
Irish Escort Duos and two Irish Escort Couples listed here on Escort Ireland."
The numbers they have fluctuate on a daily basis depending on how many of the
foreign women are in the country at the time.
To bolster what it sees as its own legitimacy the website states: "We are a
female owned and operated business that cares about the escorts that advertise
with us, the clients that use our website and the overall well-being of our
industry. We work very hard to provide a top quality service to our advertising
customers and website users."We feel our integrity and dedication to
consistently working hard to provide the very best service we can is the key to
our success."
The website is exceptionally professional. After logging on, drop-down menus
allow punters to choose the woman or man they want to visit by, among others,
nationality, ethnicity, hair-colour, age, height, bra size, services offered
and sexual orientation.
There are reviews of the women from previous "customers" as well as a glossary
of terms explaining what terms such as "teabagging" "Russian" and "rimming"
mean.
In such a competitive market the women are willing to offer the most erotic
services. No requirement for a condom for oral sex is almost de riguer and anal
sex is offered by a large percentage though the more business minded charge an
extra ?50 to ?80 for such so-called 'extras'.
As might be expected given the population numbers, Dublin is the vice-capital
when it comes to availability.
The Escort-Ireland website lists 159 independent female escorts, two escort
couples, four escort duos (two women working together), five male escorts, one
transvestite and one transsexual escort all who work in the capital either
permanently or regularly.
In addition, it offers contact details for 20 escort agencies, with an average
of five women working in each. Some offer way more.
Cork is also a busy spot for the site with seven different escort agencies
advertising, two male escorts and 13 independent escorts.
One of its most surprisingly busy areas is Dundalk where it has one independent
escort, and two massage parlours, one of which lists 15 women on its books.
All the websites claim that the difference between the women they offer and
prostitutes is that while prostitutes charge a fee for a certain service, the
escorts are charging "for their time and companionship only".
"Anything else that may occur is a matter of coincidence and choice between
consenting adults so far as Escort Ireland and the escorts listed on Escort
Ireland are concerned. We do not condone prostitution," the Escort Ireland
website states on several of its pages, even though on the hundreds of others
featuring the women, their services are clearly laid out.
The nationwide escort sites have links to websites of individual escort
agencies and it is here that it becomes apparent that the industry is still
growing rapidly.
Many of the agency websites in each part of the country have an "employment"
section which allows women to apply to join them. Some are more discerning than
others.
Dublin Princesses' website states: "If you are a pretty young lady, highly
desirable, sized 8-12 and aged 18-30, and are interested in exploring the
possibility of becoming a Dublin Princesses' escort, please fill out the form
below." For others size and age are not quite so important if other attributes
are apparent.
One thing that is glaringly obvious by its omission from nearly all the sites,
is sexual health screening. While most say they offer a caring environment to
their escorts and customers they make no mention of checks for sexually
transmitted diseases which could be passed on so widely if the punter is a
regular user of prostitution.
The websites also make little or no mention of the issue of trafficking even
though it is into their industry that women are being forced.
Escort Ireland is one of the few that mentions it. However, while it says it
has become "concerned" about the growing problem and says it educates the
industry about the issue, it does not say whether it makes checks to ensure the
women it advertises are not available because they have been trafficked into
this country.
The growth of escort websites has mushroomed since 1999 when In Dublin Magazine
hit the headlines for advertising adult services. It was banned by the
Censorship of Publications Board for carrying ads on prostitution. The ban was
later lifted but by then many of the agencies and escorts had seized on the
opportunity the internet provided and signed up to websites.
A website also with the name In Dublin now publishes page upon page of listings
for escort services across Ireland as well as smaller classified
advertisements. It is British-based.
