We condemn last week’s police and immigration raid on women working in Soho as a violation of human and legal rights (Foreign bodies, Women, G2, February 20). In the name of “protecting” women from trafficking, about 40 women, including a woman from Iraq, were arrested, detained and in some cases summarily removed from Britain. If […]
Kenneth Baker MPHome SecretaryHouse of CommonsLondon SW1A OAA28 November 1991 Dear Home Secretary, re: prostitute women and condoms We are writing to ask for an end to the use of possession of condoms as evidence to arrest and convict prostitute women on charges of loitering and soliciting. As you know, government policy on HIV and […]
Letters: Vol. 2 No. 23 · 4 December 1980SIR: Rosemary Dinnage in her review of Prostitutes: Our Life (LRB, 18 September) does not escape society’s puritanism. Thus she confuses prostitution with prostitutes, and morality with the law. Despite compassion and a great effort to be balanced, she cannot hide her disgust and her distance from women who […]