Letters Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/category/letters/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:21:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png Letters Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/category/letters/ 32 32 Letter: Impact of immigration plans on modern slavery survivors https://prostitutescollective.net/letter-impact-of-immigration-plans-on-modern-slavery-survivors/ Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:00:06 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20075 Joint letter to the Home Secretary, issued by After Exploitation, in response to immigration plans announced by the government that would make life much worse for survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking seeking asylum in the UK.   Read the full briefing on the changes here. ---------------- After Exploitation + signatories info@afterexploitation.org 24th November […]

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]]> Open Letter: To Home Secretary – Abolish “Prostitute’s Cautions” https://prostitutescollective.net/open-letter-to-home-secretary-abolish-prostitutes-cautions/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:03:15 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=18195 SIGN ONLINE HERE Or email ecp@prostitutescollective.net to be added. Dear Home Secretary, We are writing to ask that you take action to abolish ‘prostitute’s cautions’ which trap women in sex work, prevent them from leaving abusive and violent relationships, and push them further into poverty. ‘Prostitute’s cautions’ are cautions that the police can give to […]

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]]> The Guardian: Letter – Decriminalise Prostitution https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-letter-decriminalise-prostitution/ Sun, 01 Sep 2024 10:08:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17894 Decriminalise prostitution Sonia Sodha is right that “male demand for prostitution is not innate. Governments shape it through legislation” (“Punish the men who pay for sex, rather than the women lured into that life”). But legislation also shapes women’s experiences of offering sex for money. Criminalising the buying of sex doesn’t stop men from buying […]

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]]> The Times: Letter – University courses for student sex workers https://prostitutescollective.net/the-times-letters-university-courses-for-student-sex-workers/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:22:32 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16023 Sir, Libby Purves lists justifiable grievances against universities, such as vice-presidents’ soaring pay,  but then directs her wrath against them for supporting sex workers. Getting information about the draconian prostitution laws that criminalise us and undermine our safety does not  “normalise” sex work. How can   advice specific to one’s situation be considered harmful?Purves repeats […]

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]]> The Guardian: Letter – Soho sex workers’ protest did bring about change https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-letter-soho-sex-workers-protest-did-bring-about-change/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 22:50:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=15161 Cari Mitchell on the campaign to increase safety for women working in flats in London’s Soho district Your review of Hot Stew, a novel set amid the brothels of Soho (10 March) condemns as “disastrous” the forms of protest attempted by the prostitutes. But in real life, a sex worker-led campaign of meetings and marches, pickets and protests […]

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]]> Sunday Times: Letter – response to Julie Bindel https://prostitutescollective.net/sunday-times-letter-in-response-to-julie-bindel/ Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:20:42 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=10278 ECONOMIC REALITY OF PROSTITUTIONThe feminist writer Julie Bindel describes prostitution as “harmful and abusive” and salaciously misrepresents the sex-worker-led movement to decriminalise it as the “happy hooker crew” (News Review, last week). In fact, it consists of women determined not to starve and see our children go without.Bindel condemns Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the […]

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]]> Ilford Recorder: Letter – don’t punish the sex workers https://prostitutescollective.net/ilford-recorder-letters-dont-punish-the-sex-workers/ Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:04:34 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7651 Niki Adams, English Collective of Prostitutes, Crossroads Women’s Centre, Wolsey Mews, Kentish Town, writes:We are distressed to see “Street Watch” patrols in Ilford Lane which claim to target kerb crawlers as this is likely to push sex workers into more isolated areas where they will be more vulnerable to violence.We have also seen how quickly […]

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]]> Sunday Times: Letter – strip club ‘sting’ is threat to workers https://prostitutescollective.net/sunday-times-letters-to-the-editor-strip-club-sting-is-threat-to-workers/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:41:55 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7636 April 7, 2019  You report that the Not Buying It group is paying men to spy on strippers at Spearmint Rhino, to catch them breaking the no-touching rule (“Sting at strip club lays bare feminist split over sex work”, News, last week). This surveillance, aimed at closing down strip clubs and depriving women workers of […]

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]]> Evening Standard: Letter – sex work should be decriminalised  https://prostitutescollective.net/evening-standard-letter-sex-work-should-be-decriminalised/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:05:18 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7548 I’ve been a sex worker for more than  five years, working in a flat with friends and for a few months on the street when I didn’t have money to set myself up in premises. I felt safest working with other women and where we had installed CCTV for safety. But although my job is […]

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]]> Camden New Journal: Letter – how can the Women’s Equality Party campaign to close strip clubs? https://prostitutescollective.net/letter-how-can-the-womens-equality-party-campaign-to-close-strip-clubs/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:42:42 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7532 21 February, 2019HOW can the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) justify campaigning to close strip clubs without saying how women, deprived of this source of income, should support themselves and their families? (Campaigners fight on against lap-dancing clubs but The Griffin secures new licence, February 15).The WEP says about stripping that: “Degradation of women is the business […]

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