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2.30-6pm, at St Peter’s Community Hall, 56 Warner Place, London, E2 7DA. Recent police raids against sex workers in Soho, London, have thrown scores of women out of the relative safety of their flats and arrests against street workers are rife. At the same time unemployment benefit cuts and sanctions, lowering wages, homelessness, and debt […]
Under the Nordic Model – which criminalises the clients of sex workers – the role of the dominatrix, which is as classically British as that of a steam train conductor, will be greatly changed and diminished. BY MARGARET CORVID My partner and I often hike along forgotten railway lines. They evoke a golden age of transport, […]
Speakers highlight two recent sex worker-led struggles: the historic victory in California of sex workers winning compensation for rape, and the protests against mass raids and closures of sex workers’ flats in the red-light area of Soho, London, England. Hear how trafficking is being used as a justification for a moralistic crusade against sex workers […]
Sex is why people go to Soho – even if they don’t know it. By Jaymi McCann The millions of revellers who descend on the central London area every year might think they are going for a cocktail but what really drives them to the UK’s centre of sex is the sleaze, excitement and colour of […]
The ECP submitted evidence to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Rashida Manjoo during her two week investigative mission to the UK. The submission detailed the experience of women in the ECP network and highlighted a number of urgent issues, including: the high level of rape and violence against sex workers and the […]
The all-party parliamentary group that recommended the criminalisation of sex workers’ clients, which is cited as backing for Caroline Spelman’s views (Outlaw buying sex, says former Tory minister, 22 April), is a partisan group whose original remit was to “tackle demand for the sex trade”. Its moralistic stance is confirmed by its choice of secretariat – […]
Listen here.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has criticised calls for the Government to make buying sex a crime.Tory cabinet minister Caroline Spelman claimed the UK should copy the so-called nordic model, where prostitution is legal but buying sex is not.However ECP spokeswoman Cari Mitchell said the changes in Sweden made the profession “more dangerous” […]
An ex-minister is calling for a law change to make paying for sex illegal Paying for sex should be made illegal and the laws on prostitution need reforming, a former Conservative Cabinet minister said. Caroline Spelman, who was Environment Secretary from 2010 to 2012, said she supported a Nordic model run in Sweden, Iceland […]