Cost of Living Crisis
Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) inquiry – Impact of the rising cost of living on women (2023)
The Women and Equalities Parliamentary Committee launched an inquiry into the impact of the rising cost of living on women. The ECP submission reports on the increase in women in crisis coming to us for information about starting work and going back into sex work – some who have left many years ago. Most are […]
AFP: UK sex workers take more risks due to cost-of-living crunch
Emeline BURCKEL Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is pushing more of its sex workers into taking potentially dangerous risks in order to make ends meet.Rocketing UK inflation — which remains above 10 percent — has forced even more vulnerable Britons into such work to pay spiralling bills, advocates for the sector say.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), which […]
Metro: ‘We have to offer more for less, because we don’t have any other options’
By Lauren Crosby Medlicott, JournalistAfter a long working day at a London-based office job in the charity sector, there’s nothing Alex* would love more than to go out with friends or sit and binge on boxsets. Instead, Alex opens their ‘sex work’ phone en route to the gym and quickly replies to messages from clients who they’ll be seeing […]
Metro: Sex workers in the UK struggling since the pandemic say ‘I’d stop if I could’
Tanyel MustafaIt recently hit headlines that certain MPs were using sex workers abroad while on parliamentary trips.Other reports include police officers using robbed money on sex workers, and detectives arresting sex workers, only to have sex with them at the police station.While this activity happens, sex workers in the UK are being dealt an increasingly rough hand.Earlier this year, […]
ITV News: Spiralling living costs are making life ‘more dangerous’ for sex workers
WATCH HERE By ITV News’ Dani Sinha Often referred to as the world’s oldest profession, sex work is happening all around us – whether it’s online, on the streets or indoors. But spiralling living costs mean many sex workers are having to accept more potentially dangerous clients and work longer hours. It’s seen some women […]
Mashable: How the cost of living crisis is affecting sex workers’ safety
“More people, especially women, will be pushed into sex work; and current sex workers will be facing worse financial hardship.” By Beth Ashley on December 21, 2022 When the cost of living crisis struck the UK in full swing, 28-year-old porn performer Dana, decided it was time to get a “traditional job,” as she puts it. “I have some marketing training so I […]
Independent: Change brothel laws to keep sex workers safe, top police officer urges government
Exclusive: Campaigner says changing law ‘could be the difference between life and death for women’Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent The government must review prostitution laws to ensure sex workers can work together on the same premises to remain safe, a senior police officer has said.Dan Vajzovic, the National Police Chief Council’s lead for prostitution and sex work, told The Independent he is working alongside government officials to reassess brothel keeping legislation.Politicians […]
Independent: Do we really need more proof that sex work should be decriminalised?
In the cost of living crisis, women are not being pushed into prostitution by abusers, traffickers or pimps, but by the wilful neglect of the state. The time to act is now Nadia Whittome, Lydia Caradonna As food banks fail to keep up with demand, and families cannot afford to put money on the […]
BBC Politics: Sex work in the cost of living crisis
“If the majority of sex workers are mothers, that’s a condemnation of the society that we live in,” says Niki Adams of the English Collective of ProstitutesNiki and former Home Office adviser Nimco Ali discuss sex work in the UK#PoliticsLive https://t.co/YaKq4i6aZH pic.twitter.com/w1FYTkVdQ2— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 13, 2022