Media coverage
Barking and Dagenham Post hard copy here: Sex workers won’t report crimes for fear of being prosecuted Last week the Post reported on two aggravated burglaries in a Barking brothel, which led to the ordering of its closure. This week we speak to a women’s rights organisation, which criticises the police handling of the case, […]
Vision’s Will Thorman examines the alternatives to prostitution to help cope with the increased costs of going to University…Since the Government’s announcement of increasing tuition fees, students have been feeling a little strapped for cash. The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) said the number of calls received from students had “at least doubled”. Not being […]
Brothel attacks prompt debate whether police priority should be prosecuting sex workers or catching dangerous criminalsA series of gang attacks on brothels in east London has triggered calls for changes to the prostitution laws after victims who reported knifepoint robberies said they ended up being threatened with prosecution.A police investigation has been launched as senior Labour and […]
Police crackdowns on brothel-keeping mean that sex workers are unwilling to report intimidation and violence.The trial of Sheila Farmer, an escort with a malignant brain tumor and diabetes charged with brothel-keeping, collapsed on 4 January after the prosecution failed to bring a witness to testify against her.Farmer, who worked with friends for safety after she was […]
All Sheila Farmer was trying to do was guarantee the safety of her and fellow consensual sex workers from violence, rape and robbery, that she was prosecuted is a national disgrace…It was January 3rd, 2012. Stepping over the broken-winged corpses of umbrellas on Croydon’s pavements, a rain-drenched, gale-battered group of approximately thirty supporters, myself included, […]
The government claims it needs to make cuts but squanders huge amounts of money prosecuting women like me.This week charges of brothel-keeping against me were dropped. It’s enough for two prostitutes to live or work together for us to be illegal. To be within the law we must work alone. After 18 months of campaigning to […]
With record numbers of women in London turning to sex work to provide an income the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has launched a new campaign to decriminalise prostitution for “safety’s sake”.At an event at St Pauls “Tent City” a New Zealand MP Tim Barnett who sponsored the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act which decriminalised prostitution […]
Extremely worrying new information has come to light in the on-going tuition fees furore, as National Union of Students women’s officer Estelle Hart revealed that students are turning to prostitution and lap dancing to make ends meet. Speaking on the Breakfast programme of BBC Radio 5 Live, Hart blamed the turn to “dangerous, unregulated work” […]
STRUGGLING students are turning to the seedier side of life to pay their steep education bills.The National Union of Students say increased living costs and tuition fees are even forcing some youngsters to take up escort work and prostitution.And from 2012 when universities in England will be allowed to charge up to £9,000 per year […]
CASH-strapped students are turning to the sex industry to get through university, it has been claimed.As tuition fees spiral, uninhibited undergrads are turning to kinky measures to foot the bills, with folk at the National Union of Students and the English Collective of Prostitutes noting the growing trend.YourView users were quick to voice their opinions […]