In the lead-up to the general election, we have the chance to move the debate forwards, towards the full decriminalisation of sex work. BY MARGARET CORVID When I became a sex worker, I thought I was entering a marginal, grey area, as far away from politics as any occupation can be. Instead, I found myself part […]
By Frankie Miren “Last year, my friend was attacked by a client and was nervous to keep working alone, so I let her work from my place along with me, for safety,” says Toni of the Sex Worker Open University. “Unfortunately, we encountered another aggressive client who really frightened us. I threatened to ring the […]
If progress is to be made now an amendment to the modern slavery bill has been defeated, MPs must invite us into the discussion Niki Adams theguardian.com ‘Swedish sex workers have said that since clients have been criminalised, they have been treated worse by the authorities.’ This week, the tide turned against attempts to attack sex […]
by Joana RamiroSEX workers and campaigners joined forces in the House of Commons yesterday to lobby against sections of new Bill which would criminalise clients.Members of the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) argued that some clauses of the Modern Slavery Bill could increase the dangers faced by sex workers.“We strongly oppose the criminalisation of clients, on […]
By Sian Davies PLANS that were feared could have led to the further criminalisation of prostitutes have been defeated thanks to a long running campaign spearheaded by the Hampshire Women’s Institute. An amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill put forward by Fiona Mactaggart MP which campaigners felt would have criminalised clients was dropped without even […]
With the freedom to work, organise and fight, sex workers will end coercion in the trade. BY MARGARET CORVID I am lucky to have taken up my work as a dominatrix amid a revolution in our thinking about sex work. Writers like Laura Agustín and Melissa Gira Grant have taken apart our sexualised, othered image, and sex workers and […]
Under the Nordic Model – which criminalises the clients of sex workers – the role of the dominatrix, which is as classically British as that of a steam train conductor, will be greatly changed and diminished. BY MARGARET CORVID My partner and I often hike along forgotten railway lines. They evoke a golden age of transport, […]
The all-party parliamentary group that recommended the criminalisation of sex workers’ clients, which is cited as backing for Caroline Spelman’s views (Outlaw buying sex, says former Tory minister, 22 April), is a partisan group whose original remit was to “tackle demand for the sex trade”. Its moralistic stance is confirmed by its choice of secretariat – […]
Listen here.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has criticised calls for the Government to make buying sex a crime.Tory cabinet minister Caroline Spelman claimed the UK should copy the so-called nordic model, where prostitution is legal but buying sex is not.However ECP spokeswoman Cari Mitchell said the changes in Sweden made the profession “more dangerous” […]
An ex-minister is calling for a law change to make paying for sex illegal Paying for sex should be made illegal and the laws on prostitution need reforming, a former Conservative Cabinet minister said. Caroline Spelman, who was Environment Secretary from 2010 to 2012, said she supported a Nordic model run in Sweden, Iceland […]