‘We will be forced back onto the backstreet alleys and made as vulnerable overnight as women were in Victorian days. We won’t be able to feed our kids,’ says sex worker Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheim A Labour MP has been fiercely criticised for proposing legislation which would criminalise buying sex as campaigners warn the bill […]
Men who pay for sex fuel ‘brutal sex trafficking trade’, senior MP says as she proposes law to bust the business However, sex workers and trade unionists argue that criminalising clients undermines sex workers’ safety Men who pay for sex are fuelling a “brutal sex trafficking trade”, a senior MP said on Wednesday as she proposed […]
VIC PARSONS Trade unions, sex workers, women’s rights organisations and thousands of individuals have united to oppose a Labour bill that would bring the “Nordic model” sex work law to England and Wales. Due to be put forward today by Labour MP Diana Johnson, the bill on “sexual exploitation” would criminalise paying for sex and target […]
Sex workers, trade unionists, women’s and human rights organisations are briefing MPs against a Ten-Minute Rule Motion to criminalise sex workers’ clients, being read in Parliament today, Wednesday, 9 December. The motion, tabled by Diana Johnson MP, proposes a Bill to “criminalise paying for sex” and target sex workers who advertise online. The briefing documents […]
Issued by The Safety First Coalition (SFC) The SFC which campaigns to decriminalise sex work and prioritise women’s safety is coordinated by the English Collective of Prostitutes and was launched in 2006 following the murders of five young women in Ipswich. The coalition includes anti-poverty campaigners, church people & residents from Ipswich and elsewhere, members […]
At the time of a pandemic when poverty, particularly among women and children has increased so massively, why is Diana Johnson and other women MPs focusing on proposals that will make women poorer. They urge the government to criminalise sex workers’ clients and crack down on online advertising sites without any consideration to the ways […]
Next month the government will enforce age verification laws for online pornography — rendering the UK the first country to introduce age checks. The measures, however, pose a tangible threat to sex workers’ income and safety.Eve Adler is a webcam model — also known as a cam girl — and her job is about to […]
Sex workers say advertising online has made them safer. MPs see it differentlyBy KELLY FIVEASHFor Britain’s sex workers, the threat of new legislation is all too real. Recent calls from MPs to ensure that prostitution websites “cannot financially benefit from exploited women” have caused anxiety among sex workers, who say that advertising their services online has […]
Dear friends,On Wednesday 4 July, MPs debated a proposal from the discredited All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution (APPGP) to shut down online sites where sex workers advertise.Please see below some of the press coverage of the debate and a protest in Parliament Square called by the ECP, SWARM and X:Talk Project:Buzzfeed: MPs Want To […]
When I went along for my first meeting with an MP (Yvette Cooper) in 2015 I was so nervous. I had never met an MP before and I knew it was going to be difficult. I have always had little confidence in my oral skills (not in that way you pervert). You see my education […]