Sex workers speak out Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/category/sex-workers-speak-out/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:31:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png Sex workers speak out Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/category/sex-workers-speak-out/ 32 32 Statement: Gabriela, Trans Day of Remembrance https://prostitutescollective.net/tdor-2021/ Sat, 20 Nov 2021 12:48:41 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16030 Trans people globally live under the constant threat of violence, and for trans sex workers this is heightened by illegality & stigma. This Trans Day of Remembrance we’re sharing a short statement from a migrant trans woman in our network on how criminalisation impacts sex workers' safety  My name is Gabriela, I am a transsexual woman and […]

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]]> Natalia, a migrant trans sex worker https://prostitutescollective.net/interview-natalia-a-migrant-trans-sex-worker/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:55:37 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=12128 Transcript from an online event Q&A with Natalia, a trans woman from Brazil in the ECP network.

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]]> MPs – PLEASE start listening to sex workers https://prostitutescollective.net/an-open-letter-to-mps-please-start-listening-to-sex-workers/ Mon, 09 Jul 2018 18:14:18 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7393 When I went along for my first meeting with an MP (Yvette Cooper) in 2015 I was so nervous. I had never met an MP before and I knew it was going to be difficult. I have always had little confidence in my oral skills (not in that way you pervert). You see my education […]

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]]> Statement: Working from “pop-up brothels” https://prostitutescollective.net/working-pop-brothels/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:46:31 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=5188 I have been working in brothels since 2008.  For a long time we were in the same premises with me and two other women working as sex workers. We are all mothers and working for ourselves. Most of us are sending money back home to our families in other countries. We knew working together was […]

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]]> Statement: A travelling sex worker https://prostitutescollective.net/a-travelling-sex-worker/ Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:56:28 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4563 “I was fed up of being a cleaner, bar maid and shop assistant, often all on the same day. Prostitution is certainly not the worst job I have ever had. I have worked on the fish market and as a cleaner where I was working for people who didn’t care if we were cold or […]

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]]> Statement: Convicted as a “trafficker” https://prostitutescollective.net/convicted-as-a-trafficker/ Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:55:57 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4561 I’ve been a victim of sexual abuse and domestic violence and believe every woman should be protected. I come from a poor rural area of Brazil. At age 12, I was forced to work as a domestic servant to help support my family. I was repeatedly sexually assaulted by two sons in the family.I came […]

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]]> Statement: Working from premises https://prostitutescollective.net/working-from-premises/ Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:54:36 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4558 I am an immigrant lesbian woman and I work as a prostitute. I have written this because I can't speak publicly as a prostitute. I am fed up with living a double life.I decided to go on the game because I didn't want to be dependent on men anymore. But to be independent from men, […]

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]]> Statement: Part-time street worker https://prostitutescollective.net/part-time-street-worker/ Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:53:46 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4555 I work on the streets part-time so it isn’t feasible for me to have a flat on my own, but if I could work with a friend from a flat I would do that because it would be safer. I wouldn’t be having to look over my shoulder for the police all the time. Because […]

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]]> Statement: Migrant sex worker on trafficking laws https://prostitutescollective.net/migrant-sex-work-on-trafficking-laws/ Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:52:40 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4553 “When I first came to this country I was forced to come, forced to be a sex-worker. I suffered violence every day, and drugs and alcohol. I was being watched 24 hours. I was begging police officers to come to ask me if I was OK -- they never did, it never happened.After a year […]

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]]> Statement: Migrant sex worker on International Women’s Day https://prostitutescollective.net/paulina-ecp-statement-for-iwd-2013/ Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:55:28 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=3546 My name is Paulina, I am a sex-worker.  When I first came to this country I was forced to come here, forced to be a sex-worker. I suffered violence every day and drugs and alcohol.  I was being watched 24 hours.  I was begging a police officer to come to ask me if I was […]

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