Irish Examiner view: Sex traffickers operating in plain sight

SERP’s report should make us reconsider what is and what is not acceptable in a decent society

A report on the technology being used in Ireland’s sex trade has described the use of websites to advertise escorts as a 'shop window' for sex buyers. Picture: iStock

A report on the technology being used in Ireland’s sex trade has described the use of websites to advertise escorts as a “shop window” for sex buyers.

The Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy (SERP) Institute briefing document also points out that a loophole allows the pimps and sex traffickers behind such websites to escape prosecution, but this is just one in a litany of horrors that the report puts into the spotlight.