Press Enquiries
Press briefing:
Read our press briefing Prostitution: What You Need to Know which includes facts on sex work, the impact of current law and policy and other issues facing sex workers in the UK today.
The ECP regularly provides comment to the media on a range of issues, including:
- UK prostitution laws
- Impact of current law and policy
- Policy proposals that impact sex workers, for example, benefit reforms or anti-social behaviour legislation
- Raids, arrests and prosecutions of sex workers
- Poverty and the impact of austerity on sex work
Contact
Email: ecp@prostitutescollective.net
Telephone: 020 7482 2496
Instagram: @ecp_org / Twitter: @ProstitutesColl
Press releases and statements
Examples:
- Update: Campaign that defeated a banning order in Newham
- Statement: Statement: ECP on the History of Prostitution Expunged (HOPE) Campaign Launch 28 September 2021
- Statement: Remembering 13 women, victims of terrorism, on the death of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper
- Statement: Sex workers respond to feminist MP proposal to further criminalise prostitution
- Press Release: Hookers Against Hardship – sex workers start campaign against catastrophic cost of living crisis
- Press Release: Justice for Agnes Wanjiru
- Press Release: Sex workers win support in their opposition to MP’s proposal to criminalise their clients
- Press Release: Charges withdrawn against women prosecuted for working together for safety
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Print and online media
Members of our network are frequently interviewed by national newspapers and broadcast media. Examples:
- The Observer: Call for an end to “draconian” police cautions for sex workers that last until age of 100
- Cosmopolitan: Most people in the UK think sex work should be decriminalised, new polling indicates
- The Independent: Sex workers could be pushed into illegal brothels and dangerous street work due to new laws
- Dazed: Why sex workers went on strike this week
- The Big Issue: Sex workers reveal the shocking things police say when they report violence and harassment
- Metro: The dark and dangerous reality of racism in sex work
- OpenDemocracy: The False Feminism of Criminalising Sex Workers’ Clients
- Huffington Post: Victory for Sex Workers Taken to Court for Keeping Each Other Safe
- Sky News: ‘Selling sex for £5 is the only way I can survive after Universal Credit chaos’
- I News: How sex workers who are sexually assaulted are being failed by the justice system
- Red Pepper: Criminalising sex work won’t help victims of trafficking
For more media coverage see here
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Television, Radio and Podcasts
BBC Woman’s Hour: Prostitute’s cautions
Novara Media: Protect or punish? The stakes of sex worker activism
ITV Cymru Wales: Selling sex to survive
The News Movement: Sex for rent – is it time to change the law?
Media Storm podcast: Sex Workers – Ignored and Under Threat
The Guilty Feminist podcast: Sex Worker Rights
Sex Power Money with Sara Pascoe podcast: Decriminalise sex work
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Reports and campaigns
Sex Workers are Getting Screwed by Brexit
EU Migrant Sex Work in the UK Post-Referendum
Decriminalisation of Prostitution: the Evidence
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Other resources:
Fact sheet: Exploitation + Sex Work
Fact and Fiction: Debunking common myths on prostitution
No Nordic Model: Criminalising clients undermines sex workers’ safety
Photos:
Credit: Juno Mac / SWARM
