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
Twitter: @ProstitutesColl
Please note, the best way to contact us during this COVID-19 crisis is to send us an email with a phone number we can contact you on and let us know your deadline. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
Press releases and statements
Recent examples:
- Statement: Statement: ECP on the History of Prostitution Expunged (HOPE) Campaign Launch 28 September 2021
- Statement: Sex workers respond to feminist MP proposal to further criminalise prostitution
- Statement: Coronavirus and sex workers’ demands
- 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- Press Release: Charges withdrawn against women prosecuted for working together for safety
- Press Release: Government research proves sex workers feel unsafe under the current law
- Press Release: Sex workers document Brexit-inspired discrimination that is depriving them of the right to remain in the UK
- Bulletins: Raids, Arrests and Prosecutions
Print and online media
Members of our network are frequently interviewed by national newspapers and broadcast media. Examples:
- Independent: Violence and threats against sex workers from EU ‘surges since Brexit’
- The Guardian: UK sex workers face rising violence and hardship during pandemic
- Metro: The dark and dangerous reality of racism in sex work
- BBC News: Sex workers ‘should have access to support fund’
- 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
Television, Radio & Podcasts
BBC Woman’s Hour: Sex work in lockdown
ITV: What is the Future of Sex Work in the UK?
Podcast: The Guilty Feminist: Sex Worker Rights
Podcast: Sex Power Money with Sara Pascoe
BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour – #MakeAllWomenSafe campaign
BBC 2 The Victoria Derbyshire Show – Sex Buyers Law
Publications
Decriminalisation of Prostitution: the Evidence
Sex Workers are Getting Screwed by Brexit
EU Migrant Sex Work in the UK Post-Referendum
For more information on prostitution:
Briefing: No Nordic Model
Facts About Sex Work
Fact and Fiction: Debunking Common Myths on Prostitution
Trafficking Briefing
Know Your Rights: A Guide for Sex Workers