As is already happening in the US, vital websites for sex workers could be shut down by laws aimed at curbing trafficking.In the early 1990s, BT began cutting off the landlines of sex workers who advertised in telephone boxes. The cards, often put up by young people or pensioners for a fee, allowed women to […]
In 2015, a woman working for an NHS Trust was forced to resign under threat of immediate dismissal for “behaving in a manner that would not be acceptable in any situation” and “bringing the Trust into disrepute” following allegations that she advertised services on adult websites. Ms Molloy was a dedicated employee of the Trust […]
Banning ads will put sex workers at risk. An organisation of sex workers is opposing a private members bill which aims to ban the advertising of sexual services, on the grounds that it would push sex workers out of premises and into greater danger and and/or into the hands of exploitative employers. The Advertising of Prostitution […]
Briefing against the Advertising of Prostitution (Prohibition) Bill [HL], a private member’s bill introduced by Lord McColl of DulwichWe strongly oppose the bill which aims to “make it an offence to publish, or distribute, an advertisement of a brothel or the services of a prostitute”. We urge peers to do the same.Preventing sex workers from […]
By US Prostitutes CollectiveDefend Village Voice under attack for adult ads.Protest Women’s Funding Network undermining sex workers’ rights & safety.Village Voice is under attack for running Backpage.com the on-line adult classified ads service. Advertising allows many sex workers to work in the relative safety of premises. The same people who witch-hunted Craigslist with a big bucks […]
Thursday July 8, 2010Contact: Rachel West (US PROS) 415-640-4250 Sex workers groups and others oppose protest of CraigslistUS PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) and others will be holding a counter protest at Craigslist today at 12 noon. We strongly oppose the false claims about trafficking and pimps made by fundamentalist feminists and others in order to […]
As the economic crisis hit, feminists in government are redoubling their attack on their more vulnerable sisters: sex workers. Today Harriet Harman is speaking at the Women’s Institute (WI). Under the guise of stopping trafficking in persons, she is calling for sex workers to be banned from advertising in local papers. It’s regrettable that the […]
In response to complaints by a number of women in the English Collective of Prostitutes’ network, represented by solicitors Leigh, Day & Co, OFTEL has ruled that British Telecom’s action of cutting off the phones of women who advertise sexual services in phone boxes contravenes their obligation to “provide universal service” without “discrimination against particular […]