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: […]
Prostitution ‘lies’: Soho sex workers protest over reporting guide for journalists SOHO sex workers angrily protested against a “biased and inaccurate” guide to reporting for journalists on Wednesday. The new guide for journalists on prostitution and trafficking, written by controversial journalist and campaigner Julie Bindel, was branded as “misleading” and full of “lies” by the […]
SARA STEENSIG In Sweden, the police persecute people who buy sex, not the prostituted persons. The sex industry is notoriously uncertain and dangerous. Traffickers and violent pimps, abusive johns and police persecution are all factors that make prostitution unsafe. No matter what you think of exchanging sex for money, it happens all the time around […]
SARA STEENSIG What is prostitution? Consenting adults having sex with money involved, or abuse of persons in a vulnerable situation? Laura Lee and Vednita Carter’s stories start the same way, just like many other stories across the world: with young women in need of jobs to finance their studies. While Lee’s friends worked three or […]
CAROLINE MORTIMER SEX workers and campaigners held a candlelit procession through the streets of Soho to protest against “the worsening conditions in the borough and across the world”. The vigil was to mark International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers and the first anniversary of the raids on the Soho flats which saw 200 […]
Yesterday was the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, and the London demo had last year’s excessive police raids on Soho’s working flats at the front of its mind. By Frankie Mullin Last night, I joined a march through Soho in support of sex workers. It’s an area of London that – despite what […]
Posted by Joana Ramiro SEX workers held a candle-lit march through London yesterday to remember fellow workers who have been victims of violence. Members of the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) held commemorations in Soho to mark the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers. And they were joined by screen […]