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 […]
ALINA POLIANSKAYASEX workers joined Soho’s artisan community in a day of protest against police brothel raids as they took to the streets to film a music video for a protest singer with deep roots in the community.Following the recent spate of raids on the area’s brothels, the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) were invited along […]
English Collective of Prostitutes joined by artists, actors and musicians to fight ‘ham-fisted’ police action Soho sex workers held “their biggest protest to date” in London’s Piccadilly yesterday against recent raids on brothels. Musicians, actors, dancers and performance artists joined members of The English Collective of Prostitutes to protest against the “ham-fisted” nature […]
Damian WhitworthThe late porn baron’s company wants to redevelop London’s village of vice — but without the sex, will it lose its soul?The front line in the battle for the soul of Soho can be found if you take a walk down Brewer Street until you reach a door that is open on to the […]
See video here. As sex workers from across Europe gather at the House of Commons to argue against proposals to criminalise their clients, Channel 4 News asks one woman what effect changing the law would have. The sex workers say proposals drawn up by the all-party parliamentary group on prostitution would not stop prostitution, but would […]