MPs and peers have this week been calling for reforms to Britain’s laws, which currently criminalise prostitution. An all-party parliamentary group on prostitution has urged Britain to follow the lead of countries such as Sweden and Norway, which make the purchase of sex illegal rather than targeting women who may have been coerced into selling their […]
Current laws prioritise ‘gratification of punters at expense of often vulnerable women and girls’, MP says British prostitution laws should be overhauled so that women selling sex are no longer criminalised but buying sex is against the law, a cross-party group of MPs said on Monday. In the first report of its kind for […]
Independent escort Laura Lee and the English Collective of Prostitutes respond to RadFemUK’s piece on the European Parliament’s vote in favour of adopting the Nordic Model, which criminalises the purchase of sex. The English Collective of Prostitutes: Criminalising clients will not stop prostitution, nor will it stop the criminalisation of women. But it will make it […]
Mary Honeyball said: The English Collective of Prostitutes, one of the groups who have contested my report most fiercely, seem to agree with me that prostitution is a last resort. “Every time there’s a benefit cut, it forces women on to the game,” they admit. Yet in response they argue that, in the age of […]
Niki Adams cautions against ‘the Swedish Model’ and raises concerns about the role of the religiously-motivated, State-funded Irish pressure group ‘Ruhama’. Olaf Tyaransen “To the moralist, prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.” – EMMA GOLDMAN, Anarchism And Other Essays […]
Members of the English Collective of Prostitutes were joined by Soho residents on Wednesday in a noon protest against the raids. They also collected signatures in opposition to a move in the European Parliament to criminalise sex workers’ clients.by WILLIAM McLENNAN A VICAR has said public confidence in the police has been “severely undermined” by the […]
Police operation condemned with claims that it will ‘push sex workers back on to the streets’ Mark Townsend A parish priest in Soho’s red-light district in London has claimed that the behaviour of police during raids on local brothels was “unacceptable and at times unlawful”. The Rev Simon Buckley, of St Anne’s rectory in Soho, has sent a […]
Two flats raided in London’s Red Light district last December by 200 policeOfficers believed sex workers were being illegally controlled for gainHowever, judge has quashed closure on two flats in Brewer Street, SohoSaid there was no evidence of police claims at Isleworth Crown Court’We are delighted. The ruling is extremely important,’ one campaigner saidBy LIZZIE EDMONDSTwo […]
Court rejects sex workers’ claims they were not being controlled and were safer than on streetsPaul PeacheyTwo sex workers lost their legal battle against Scotland Yard on Monday after claiming that the mass closure of brothels in the heart of London’s red-light district put them at greater risk of attack.Eighteen brothels were shuttered after raids […]