Desperate British students, faced with rising costs on the back of government austerity measures, are turning to prostitution, gambling and other dangerous pursuits to fund their studies, support workers and student leaders said on Wednesday.The English Collective of Prostitutes, a welfare body for sex workers, said it estimated the number of people approaching it for […]
Greater numbers of students in England are turning to prostitution to fund their education, the National Union of Students (NUS) claims. The NUS also says students are turning to gambling and taking part in medical experiments to fund their studies. It says increased living costs and fees, and cuts to the education maintenance allowance, play […]
Ms Sheila Farmer is facing a trial on 3 January 2012 at Croydon Crown Court. Please can you urgently write to the addresses below. Ms Sheila Farmer has been a diabetic since childhood and is seriously ill with a malignant brain tumour. Yet she has been charged with managing a brothel and is facing an […]
THERE are few clues as to what happens inside Stiletto, billed euphemistically as “the world’s finest short-stay boutique hotel”. It looks like any upmarket retreat but is the latest, most stylish flagship for the legalised sex industry in Sydney, Australia.Inside this high-class brothel, which cost more than £7million to create, there are Dali-inspired red lips […]
It is a tragedy that it has taken the murders of countless sex workers, including five young women in Ipswich and three women in Bradford in the last few years, for the police to suggest that the prostitution laws are not ‘fit for purpose’ and that New Zealand type decriminalisation should be considered. New Zealand successfully […]
Mama Quilla shows that theatre still has the capacity to address public issues. —The GuardianOn 17 October 2009, Mama Quilla, funded by the Arts Council and Camden Council presented:”A Day of Debate and Performance. Should Prostitution Be Decriminalised?”As early as 2000, Westminster Council had made attempts to cleanse Soho of its sex workers by the compulsory […]
The Met should turn a blind eye to prostitutes working in brothels, according to a Conservative member of the London Assembly.Andrew Boff claimed today that police were being too “severe” in shutting small-scale brothels ahead of the Olympics, forcing women on to the street and putting them in danger.Mr Boff also called for brothels to […]
By US Prostitutes Collective Defend Village Voice under attack for adult ads. Protest Women’s Funding Network undermining sex workers’ rights & safety. Village Voice is under attack for running Backpage.com the on-line adult classified ads service. Advertising allows many sex workers to work in the relative safety of premises. The same people who witch-hunted Craigslist with […]
A law intended to criminalise men who use prostitutes has led to just 43 convictions in England and Wales in its first year of operation. Figures released to the BBC show that in some regions not one man was convicted for having sex with a woman who had been forced into prostitution. Police say the […]
POWER – The purpose of this film-tool produced by Istituo Micropunta is to fill the gap between sex work and society’s perception of it giving voice to Prostitute Collective and Sex Workers around the world. Featuring Niki Adams E.C.P (English Collective of Prostitutes) Catherine Healy NZPC (New Zeland Prostitutes Collective) Pia Covre and Carla Corso […]
