Sir, – I have just watched the Late Late Show on RTÉ One (Friday, February 13th) and was interested by the item on a dating website where wealthy people can meet beautiful young students to start a "relationship" where the "sugar daddy" pays the student through college and the tough years, in return for a "relationship" with the beautiful, young student.
I say beautiful and young because this was what the ad – shown on the programme – portrayed.
I am not anti-prostitution. If two adults wish to enter a contract that involves sexual favours, then that is between the two consenting adults and nobody else (bar perhaps the taxman). But take it down the social ladder a little, and the man and the woman exchanging hundreds instead of thousands in their contract of mutual benefit are breaking the law and both parties should be criminalised.
Potatoes, potatos; tomatoes, tomatos; tax avoidance, tax evasion. When did the wealthy buy the right to semantics? – Yours, etc, DARREN WILLIAMS Blackglen Road, Dublin 18.