Sex in the City: The Prostitution Racket in Ireland.
Sex in the City: The Prostitution Racket in Ireland.
London: Pan Books, 2003. 324 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
“Sex in the City reveals how the organised prostitution rackets work in Ireland. It does so through the lives and activities of the main people involved. It maps the origins and development of their enterprises and charts the growth of their multi-million euro businesses. It exposes the men and women at the top. It explains the systems they use to run their brothels and prostitutes and the methods they use to avoid prosecution.
Sex in the City highlights the type of people the pimps employed and the individuals who availed of their services and supported their criminal operations The men and women come from all walks of life and social classes. Wealthy, middle and upper-class professionals such as doctors, lawyers, businessmen and priests all paid to have sex with prostitutes in the brothels, in their offices, or in their own homes.
Sex in the City also shines a light on the darker side of the prostitution business - the disturbing demand in Irish society for sex with young teenagers and children. It shows that those seeking sex with children contact brothels and prostitutes. A 14-year-old child prostitute was found in one of the brothels. Hundreds of men paid to have sex with her. In 1997, 57 boys and girls were found working as prostitutes. The link between prostitution and paedophilia cannot be ignored.
The vice trade is big business. It is estimated to be worth at least €7 billion a year worldwide, £750 million sterling a year in Britain. There are no definitive statistics for Ireland, but based on these figures and the amounts that brothel-keepers alone earn, it is probably worth over €100 million.
Sex in the City outlines in forensic detail the financial affairs of Dublin’s biggest pimps. It tells the full story of the prostitution business. It is a long look at a murky corner of modern Ireland.”
ISBN: 0717136884
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