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Financial turmoil is pushing people who work in the sex industry into more dangerous and desperate situations as a means of survival, reports Ella Glover.“I’m afraid to set any boundaries now and just feel like I have to cater to a client’s every need,” says Emily*, a sex worker from the UK. “The stakes of […]
The number of calls to the English Collective of Prostitutes – a grassroots organisation of sex workers – has surged by a third, figures have shownWomen are being forced into sex work in a desperate bid to make money amid the cost of living crisis.The north London-based organisation, which has helplines and national hubs in several major […]
More women are turning to sex work for the first time, while others who have managed to leave it behind are having to return in order to pay their bills, outreach workers have told Sky News.The cost of living crisis is pushing more women into sex work and leaving them unable to say no to […]
Activists have been fighting for sex work to be decriminalised for decades, but what would that actually look like? Writer Brit Dawson investigatesThis article is part of our Future of Sex season – a series of features investigating the future of sex, relationships, dating, sex work and sex worker rights; tech; taboos; and the next socio-political sexual frontiers.When I ask London-based sex worker Rosa to […]
Taking the trafficking out of sex work Freedom United host a special panel event discussing the decriminalization of sex work with our expert panel as an alternative to the Nordic Model and how the decriminalization of sex work can help build resilience to trafficking.
It’s 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has comeBy Angela CobbinahWomen’s Centre premises in King’s Cross in the 1970sIT is some time in the mid-1970s and a pensioner is stopped in a London street by a BBC camera crew and asked whether women should get paid […]
The English Collective of Prostitutes wants more women to know about the potential dangers of doing sex work through sites like OnlyFansPrices for everyday goods like food and fuel are the highest they’ve been for 40 years. We know that things are likely to only get worse, and that women are being disproportionately affected by the cost-of-living crisis.As […]