by Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service A few years ago, I traveled to Thailand where I met a sex worker for the very first time. A 37-year-old mother of three, she very succinctly told me about her life: “These were my options: I could be apart from my children for 10 hours each day while […]
Hundreds of women are expected to take part in a march in central London today to protest the way the legal system lets down victims of rape. SlutWalk will see campaigners, some in their underwear, march from Piccadilly to Trafalgar Square, where there will be a rally. The protest is part of the global SlutWalk […]
Join us at SlutWalk on Saturday 22 Sept 12.30. We’ll be gathering at the top of Piccadilly (Hyde Park end) to join the march to Trafalgar Square and the rally. Look out for our bright pink banner! SlutWalk supports sex workers’ right to safety. Speakers include rape survivors fighting for justice, the ECP and Sheila Farmer […]
Legal Action for WomenCrossroads Women’s Centre PO Box 287 London NW6 5QUTel: 020 7482 2496 minicom/voice Fax: 020 7209 4761E-mail: law@allwomencount.netBernard Hogan-HoweMetropolitan Police Commissioner,New Scotland Yard, 8-10 Broadway,London, SW1H 0BG 18 September 2012Dear Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe,On 5 September, police officers from West End Central Vice Unit and ORB Safer Spaces Neighbourhood Team raided a […]
Trafficking of women in this country is certainly alarming. However everything seems to indicate that the government is manipulating the statistics to use them for their own benefit. César Amaya SandinoThere are no definitive statistics for it, but those that do exist allow governments a free hand to act against immigration and prostitution.And it is under […]
There are more English women than foreigners working in the sex industry, although the Government and the Police say otherwise. However, public opinion polls show that people think women should be able to work in the sex industry without being persecuted. However, and according to the English Collective of Prostitutes, prostitution is a situation that […]
Dear Editor,Minister Lynne Featherstone claims that the National Ugly Mugs scheme, which publishes on line descriptions of violent men, “encourages sex workers to report violent incidents”. (“Sex workers and police join forces to create rapist database” Guardian, 5 July 2012) But sex workers are already reporting and are being prosecuted for prostitution offences while their […]
by Carolina TalaveraHaving read the article “Legal or not, prostitution remains a harmful institution” by Melissa Farley in DREGS magazine, I write to comment and correct. In her piece, Farley makes a number of claims such as that prostitution is uniquely dangerous and damaging, and supports these claims with statistics and other evidence. On closer scrutiny […]
César Amaya Sandino It has become the only option for many women, but discrimination and prosecution are the only ‘solutions’ thrown at this problem of poverty and gender. In the United Kingdom around 70% of women in prostitution are single mothers who do not receive social benefits. Welfare cuts and the poverty they generate has […]
WHEN students are struggling to make ends meet they traditionally pull pints in a pub to earn some extra pocket money. Donna Asutaits’s choice of part-time job was much less conventional but far more lucrative. She turned to prostitution while studying for her degree, working as a high-class call girl and earning up to £1,000 […]
