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by Frankie Mullin Across the globe, a dangerous, elusive group is gathering force. People call them the Pimp Lobby. The lobby refuses to show its true face, hiding instead behind such apparently benevolent fronts as grassroots activist groups, academics, student unions and sex worker rights campaigners. But make no mistake, the lobby’s intention is the same: […]
Prostitution ‘lies’: Soho sex workers protest over reporting guide for journalists SOHO sex workers angrily protested against a “biased and inaccurate” guide to reporting for journalists on Wednesday. The new guide for journalists on prostitution and trafficking, written by controversial journalist and campaigner Julie Bindel, was branded as “misleading” and full of “lies” by the […]
WHAT: Sex workers protest misinformation and biased press briefingWHEN: Wednesday 4 February 2015, 4.30pmWHERE: Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EUSex workers and supporters will protest outside the launch of a biased and inaccurate guide for journalists on prostitution and trafficking. The guide is authored by Julie Bindel, known for partial reporting which disregards […]
SARA STEENSIG In Sweden, the police persecute people who buy sex, not the prostituted persons. The sex industry is notoriously uncertain and dangerous. Traffickers and violent pimps, abusive johns and police persecution are all factors that make prostitution unsafe. No matter what you think of exchanging sex for money, it happens all the time around […]
SARA STEENSIG What is prostitution? Consenting adults having sex with money involved, or abuse of persons in a vulnerable situation? Laura Lee and Vednita Carter’s stories start the same way, just like many other stories across the world: with young women in need of jobs to finance their studies. While Lee’s friends worked three or […]
The ECP objected to the APPG inquiry into the operation of the current legal settlement on prostitution in England and Wales, and its report ‘Shifting the Burden’, on the grounds that it was inherently biased as its stated aim was to ‘end demand for the sex trade’. Blatant inaccuracies in both the methodology and the […]
CAROLINE MORTIMER SEX workers and campaigners held a candlelit procession through the streets of Soho to protest against “the worsening conditions in the borough and across the world”. The vigil was to mark International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers and the first anniversary of the raids on the Soho flats which saw 200 […]
Yesterday was the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, and the London demo had last year’s excessive police raids on Soho’s working flats at the front of its mind. By Frankie Mullin Last night, I joined a march through Soho in support of sex workers. It’s an area of London that – despite what […]