Only crime gangs benefit from rebranding prostitution as 'sex work'

The imbalance in power between poor migrant women with no other opportunities and the well-off Irish men who buy sex from them could not be greater 

Over 90% of those who work in prostitution in Ireland are migrant women — most are young, vulnerable and have ended up in the sex trade due to poverty, coercion or some combination of these push factors. 

Imagine a job which requires you to submit to multiple experiences of unwanted, undesired sex with numerous men every day? Where a beating or a rape at the hands of a violent "customer" are common occupational hazards? Where your customers regularly remove the condom you carefully positioned without your consent during a sex act, and you immediately fear an unwanted pregnancy or STI. 

Imagine a job where you must insert a sponge into your vagina once a month, because your ‘manager’ insists you continue to sexually service clients even while you are menstruating.