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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 […]
Sheila Farmer, a sex worker who worked with other women from premises for safety had charges of brothel-keeping dismissed today in Croydon Crown Court. She worked with other women since being viciously raped and attacked whilst working alone. Ms Farmer left court with over 20 supporters delighted and relieved that she no longer faces a […]
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 […]
Monday 19 December, 6pmKEY SPEAKER: TIM BARNETTNew Zealand MP who introduced decriminalisationHe is in London only for one day. Don’t miss him!Tent City University, Occupy London Stock Exchange, St Paul’s, EC4M 8ADTim Barnett sponsored the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act which decriminalised prostitution in New Zealand, making it the first country to do so. This is the model law based […]
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 […]
Growing numbers of university and A-level students are turning to prostitution or working as escorts to fund their education, the National Union of Students said yesterday.Rising living costs and fees, as well as cuts to the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for disadvantaged young people is the cause, says the NUS.The union estimated that 20 per […]