DAN CARRIER WHEN two sex workers were raped at knifepoint by the same man and the Crown Prosecution Service did not act, the pair made legal history by using a private prosecution to get their attacker before a judge and jury themselves.Now the transcript of the groundbreaking 1995 legal case has become the basis of a […]
Sex work: The feminist criticism of the industry has sparked an aggressive debateBy Pandora Blake and Niki AdamsLast week the New Statesman organised a debate on “buying and selling sex” at Conway Hall, in collaboration with London Thinks. Here, Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes and Pandora Blake of the Sex Worker’s Open […]
Laws protecting prostitutes came into force in 2003KASHMIRA GANDER New Zealand is the best place in the world to be a prostitute thanks to its robust laws, according an organisation which represents the nation’s sex workers.For almost a decade and a half, sex workers in New Zealand have been protected by the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, […]
The English Collective of Prostitutes has created a pledge for sex worker rights – find out who supports it. BY MARGARET CORVID If you haven’t decided who to vote for yet, consider sex worker rights. This is an election animated by the spirit of a new politics, when SNP, Plaid Cymru and Greens speak, loudly and […]
In 1975, two immigrant women living in England heard about church occupations and a strike of sex workers in France protesting brutal murders and the refusal of the police to investigate them. Encouraged and inspired, the two women formed the English Collective of Prostitutes to campaign for the abolition of the prostitution laws. Our first […]
Laura Lee, 37, travels between Scotland and Ireland as a sex worker It means that from June 1, men who pay for sex could be arrested The mother believes the legislation will put women’s lives in danger By FRANKIE MULLIN A dominatrix based in Scotland is challenging a new law in Northern Ireland that will make […]
Campaigners in Coventry are calling for prostitution to be legalized, claiming that local police efforts to clamp down on the issue are leading to a dramatic worsening of sex workers’ conditions. The English Collective of Prostitutes, which has campaigned for the legalization of sex work since 1975, says that current policing tactics are making prostitutes’ […]
By Sam Dimmer’It’s not rocket science – it’s just consensual sex between adults’As police in Coventry continue their seemingly never-ending battle with sex workers and their clients in the city’s red light district campaign groups are calling for a radical change in tactics.They believe that crackdowns like Operation Scarlet – the name for police efforts to tackle prostitution […]
by Frankie Mullin in Vice According to a new study, seven in ten UK sex workers previously worked in care jobs. The research, carried out by Leeds University, revealed that 71 percent of those surveyed had left health, social care, education, childcare or charity roles to take up sex work. Financial hardship was the usual reason for […]
by Frankie Mullin Across the globe, a dangerous, elusive group is gathering force. People call them the Pimp Lobby. The lobby refuses to show its true face, hiding instead behind such apparently benevolent fronts as grassroots activist groups, academics, student unions and sex worker rights campaigners. But make no mistake, the lobby’s intention is the same: […]