As arrests, raids and prosecutions of sex workers increase in Olympic boroughs and throughout the UK, calls for the decriminalisation of prostitution highlight the need to protect sex workers from rape and violence. Cari Mitchell, English Collective of Prostitutes commented: “Police crackdowns are putting sex workers’ lives at risk. Security systems among women on the street are […]
Part of our work for the Strike 2003 was to write, with others, an Open letter to the Women’s Movement – some of those who claim to speak against violence against women picketed a sex industry establishment on International Women’s Day, when most women, children and men are desperately trying to prevent the war against Iraq. Machismo begins with the military, not […]
Abolition of the prostitution laws would:End the criminalization of prostitute women – we are being punished for refusing poverty and/or financial dependence on individual men. Black and other low-income women who, because of racism and other discrimination have fewer financial alternatives, bear the brunt of criminalization.End legal, economic and civil discrimination against prostitute women and […]
Dear Friends, Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA and the US PROStitutes Collective are asking for your help in opposing provisions in House Bill HR 3887 passed in the US House of Representatives on December 4, 2007 and now before the US Senate. HR 3887 is part of a campaign to use justifiable concern about trafficking to […]
Dear Friends, We just heard that Marie B is in court tomorrow. Ms B is a 72 year old woman charged with brothel keeping and money laundering. Her case is tomorrow, 21 March, Court 5, Luton Crown Court at 10am. Ms B worked as a receptionist at a flat which was raided on 21 January 2011. […]
Debt is increasingly limiting students’ options post-graduation, especially as the recession dries up funding for expensive law, medical and graduate degrees and youth unemployment reaches staggering levels around the world. And it seems to be driving some students to desperate measures. British medical student Jodi Dixon, who is studying at the University of Birmingham, says that the rising costs […]
Aashima Dogra To pay soaring fees and living costs, rising number of students in UK are taking up part-time work in the sex-industry. Pole and lap dancing being the most popular choice, followed by stripping and prostitution.University students knowing at least one peer involved in the adult industry has gone up from 4 per cent […]
Medical students are putting their careers at risk by turning to prostitution to fund their studies, it has been claimed.One in ten students now claim to know someone who is using prostitution to pay university fees – more than twice as many as ten years ago, according to a medical student writing in the Student […]
Students are turning to prostitution to pay for soaring university fees, it is claimed today.Jodi Dixon, a final-year medical student writing in the Student BMJ, said a survey had revealed one student in 10 claimed to know someone using prostitution to pay for their education.A decade ago, only four per cent of students said they […]
SKINT medical students are turning to prostitution to help pay their tuition fees, a Birmingham student has claimed.University of Birmingham student Jodi Dixon said a survey revealed that one in 10 trainee medics has a friend who sells sex to cope with higher living costs and rising tuition fees.This is compared to just four per […]
