Cost of Living Crisis Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/cost-of-living-crisis/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:18:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png Cost of Living Crisis Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/cost-of-living-crisis/ 32 32 Independent: Why are more women turning to sex work this year? https://prostitutescollective.net/independent-why-are-more-women-turning-to-sex-work-this-year/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:12:13 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20131 Sex work helplines have seen calls increase by a third in recent months, as more women seek to start – or restart – sex work. Radhika Sanghani speaks to sex workers and support workers to find out whyWhen Victoria was 18, she was earning minimum wage in McDonald’s, financially supporting her father who’d lost his job. […]

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]]> Video: ITV Cymru Wales – Selling Sex to Survive https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-cymru-wales-selling-sex-to-survive/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:08:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17905 Wales This Week has found that the number of women selling sex in Wales has almost doubled in the last 18 months. In the grip of a cost of living crisis, the programme investigates why more women are turning to sex work to make ends meet, and hears calls for a change in the laws, to […]

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]]> ITV Cymru Wales: Growing number of women turning to sex work amid “colossal” rise in living costs https://prostitutescollective.net/itv-cymru-wales-growing-number-of-women-turning-to-sex-work-amid-colossal-rise-in-living-costs/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:54:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17903 An increasing number of women are turning to sex work "to make ends meet".The number of active accounts registered to women in Wales on the website AdultWork.com has risen from 260 at the beginning of 2023 to 461. The website describes itself as an "online directory for adult service providers".Laura Watson, a spokesperson for the […]

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]]> Action Alert: Ask your candidates to support the decriminalisation of sex work and take action against the cost-of-living crisis https://prostitutescollective.net/action-alert-ask-your-candidates-to-support-the-decriminalisation-of-sex-work-and-take-action-against-the-cost-of-living-crisis/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:33:23 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17866 The post Action Alert: Ask your candidates to support the decriminalisation of sex work and take action against the cost-of-living crisis appeared first on English Collective of Prostitutes.

]]> Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) inquiry – Impact of the rising cost of living on women (2023) https://prostitutescollective.net/women-and-equalities-committee-wec-inquiry-impact-of-the-rising-cost-of-living-on-women/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:13:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17781 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 […]

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]]> Video: Sex for rent – is it time to change the law? https://prostitutescollective.net/video-sex-for-rent-is-it-time-to-change-the-law/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:46:28 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17722 The post Video: Sex for rent – is it time to change the law? appeared first on English Collective of Prostitutes.

]]> Action Alert: Tenants’ rights – NOT “sex for rent” laws! https://prostitutescollective.net/action-alert-oppose-legislation-to-outlaw-sex-for-rent/ Thu, 18 May 2023 12:29:34 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17700 The government is considering creating a new law to explicitly outlaw so-called “sex for rent” and has issued a “call for evidence”. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2023. Please click here to fill in the online questionnaire ---- The ECP opposes legislation to outlaw “sex for rent” because:  If a landlord harasses, threatens […]

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]]> AFP: UK sex workers take more risks due to cost-of-living crunch https://prostitutescollective.net/afp-uk-sex-workers-take-more-risks-due-to-cost-of-living-crunch/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 11:24:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17672 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 […]

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]]> Metro: ‘We have to offer more for less, because we don’t have any other options’ https://prostitutescollective.net/metro-we-have-to-offer-more-for-less-because-we-dont-have-any-other-options/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:45:54 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17631 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 […]

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]]> Metro: Sex workers in the UK struggling since the pandemic say ‘I’d stop if I could’ https://prostitutescollective.net/metro-sex-workers-in-the-uk-struggling-since-the-pandemic-say-id-stop-if-i-could/ Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:08:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17628 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, […]

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