With increasing costs of living at university, increasing numbers of students are turning to sex work or “sugar daddies” to fund their studies.Hannah Al-OthmanA growing number of students are turning to sex work to fund their studies as they struggle to cope with increasing debt and living costs, a new student finance survey has revealed.BuzzFeed […]
Sex workers say advertising online has made them safer. MPs see it differentlyBy KELLY FIVEASHFor Britain’s sex workers, the threat of new legislation is all too real. Recent calls from MPs to ensure that prostitution websites “cannot financially benefit from exploited women” have caused anxiety among sex workers, who say that advertising their services online has […]
Dear friends,On Wednesday 4 July, MPs debated a proposal from the discredited All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution (APPGP) to shut down online sites where sex workers advertise.Please see below some of the press coverage of the debate and a protest in Parliament Square called by the ECP, SWARM and X:Talk Project:Buzzfeed: MPs Want To […]
When I went along for my first meeting with an MP (Yvette Cooper) in 2015 I was so nervous. I had never met an MP before and I knew it was going to be difficult. I have always had little confidence in my oral skills (not in that way you pervert). You see my education […]
With FOSTA/SESTA already proving to be damaging in the US, why is the UK looking to push through similar legislation?Photoa via VICE UK”Decriminalise sex work, for safety’s sake.”This was one of many slogans being hurled at the House of Commons Wednesday afternoon, by a roughly 200-strong collection of sex workers and activists. They’ve come out […]
Thousands of people responded to a call to action this week and lobbied their MP to speak against proposals to ban sex workers advertising online. Thanks to everyone who wrote. We write now to ask for your help with another urgent action. The government has commissioned research on prostitution and it would be great if […]
The MPs said they understood the sex workers’ views, but that their priority is to protect the most vulnerable. A group of MPs are pushing the government to do more to crack down on exploitation in sex work, and have said that online adverts for sex work should be banned. However, sex workers have said […]
A cross-party group of MPs says the owners of such sites “directly and knowingly” profit from sex-trafficking and wants the Home Office to intervene.The group adds that a small number of sites “dominate the marketplace” and have named two in particular: Vivastreet and Adultwork.But sex-worker-rights campaigners say the proposal would be “a disaster”.Three organisations – the […]
Sex workers today join with other feminists and human rights activists to voice their opposition to a Trump-inspired ‘anti-trafficking’ law – the US version is known as SESTA/FOSTA (1) – ahead of a debate on mirroring them in the UK, which will be held in the House of Commons on Wednesday (2). The proposed legislation […]
