Prostitution has been a part of our society for centuries, but the women who engage in it are often overlooked.Whilst there are many reasons women become sex workers, the majority are forced into it by poverty, seeing it as last resort to earn money.At the moment in Britain, prostitution itself is not illegal but there […]
University of Durham’s staff and student sessions on sex work have been widely criticised – but sex work activists and advocates are applauding the further education institution for its clear-eyed supportText Brit DawsonIn December 2020, the University of Leicester developed a Student Sex Work Toolkit, which aims to teach staff about student sex work in the UK, […]
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 […]
The training was given to offer student sex workers support, as well as advising staff on how to help those in this situationDurham University is offering training to support students working in the sex industry.The university’s students union emailed all students and staff advertising a “training opportunity” for “students involved in the adult sex industry”.It said that student sex […]
“Governments say that they’re tackling modern slavery, but they use that as a guise to raid and deport and terrorize migrant sex workers in the UK . . When sex workers actually go and report violence, including trafficking to the police, nothing is done about it. In some cases sex workers are actually arrested themselves […]
A murder carried out almost a decade before her birth, and which her family should have had no connection to, has long cast a shadow for Cassie Justice Parris. The 24-year-old only found out through anxious curiosity how her father, Tony Paris, had been dragged into what would become Britain’s longest running murder trial, unwilling to wait until she was older to be let in on what appeared to be a secret in her father’s past. “I googled […]
UK-based content subscription platform OnlyFans has u-turned on its decision to ban “sexually-explicit” content on its site.The original, surprise announcement was met with backlash from sex workers, who accused the site of turning its back on the people who helped secure the platform’s success. On 25 August, OnlyFans announced that it has “suspended” the planned policy change. The platform’s flip-flopping […]
The reality TV star tells VICE World News the decision will unfairly target sex workers, saying: “It feels like we are back at square one.” Love Island star and sex columnist Megan Barton-Hanson has condemned a decision by content subscription service OnlyFans to ban sexually explicit content on its site, accusing it of treating sex workers unfairly. According to […]
At 91, Selma James has been an activist for longer than I’ve been alive, times three. A Jewish woman born in New York, in 1952 she published her first book, A Woman’s Place, aged just 22 – a radical piece of work underlining the frustrations of women’s lives in the home and the significance of their unwaged labour […]
OnlyFans and Love Island star, Megan Barton-Hanson, has hit out at OnlyFans’ decision to ban sexual content, branding the move as ‘unfair’. Last week, OnlyFans announced that from October 1, porn, or what it sees to be ‘any content containing sexually-explicit conduct’ will be banned under new guidelines. Barton-Hanson, who found her fame on the ITV series Love […]