Introduction In October 1986, Julienne Dickey of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) wrote to the King’s Cross Women’s Centre, where the English Collective of Prostitutes is based, asking if the Centre would write an article for the book Feminism and Censorship – The Current Debate “regarding opposition to censorship of pornography, related to the […]
By Bettina Boxall Several community activists Tuesday complained to the Police Commission that the Los Angeles Police Department is mishandling and covering up an investigation o[ what appear to be serial killings of prostitutes In the South-Central area. Condemning police silence on the slayings of at least nine women in the last three years, spokesmen […]
International Committee for Prostitutes’ Rights (ICPR), Amsterdam 1985, Published in Pheterson, G (ed.), A Vindication of the Rights of Whores. Seattle: Seal Press, 1989. (p.40)LawsDecriminalize all aspects of adult prostitution resulting from individual decision.Decriminalize prostitution and regulate third parties according to standard business codes. It must be noted that existing standard business codes allow abuse […]
Between 1983–1985 we published Network – the first newsletter that we know of written and produced by sex workers. It gave us a voice against police abuse, poverty and the laws and reported on campaigns and victories here and internationally.
Since 1981, when the English Collective of Prostitutes issued the first rights sheet for prostitute women in England and Wales, we have been taking up cases of false arrest and intimidation by police. In 1982, we occupied the Church of the Holy Cross in King’s Cross, London, for 12 days. We were inspired by […]
Excerpt from Some Mother’s Daughter, The Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence, International Prostitutes Collective, Crossroads Books 1999, pp49-51. 1981: The trial of the Yorkshire Ripper, serial murderer Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women. PROSTITUTES ARE INNOCENT OK! We are picketing today to protest against the handling of the Ripper case — by the court, the […]
Letters: Vol. 2 No. 23 · 4 December 1980SIR: Rosemary Dinnage in her review of Prostitutes: Our Life (LRB, 18 September) does not escape society’s puritanism. Thus she confuses prostitution with prostitutes, and morality with the law. Despite compassion and a great effort to be balanced, she cannot hide her disgust and her distance from women who […]
