Decriminalisation vs. legalisation Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes

Legislation on sex work: Germany legalisation

English Collective of Prostitutes — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:21:39 +0000

Lilith Brouwers - 2017Legal status of sex work:Although sex work is legal in Germany, it is limited by a wide range of laws and regulations that prescribe who can do sex work and under which circumstances. Central in this legislation are prostitution zoning laws (“Sperrgebietsverordnungen”) which limit the locations where sex work may be done, […]

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Legislation on sex work: Netherlands legalisation

English Collective of Prostitutes — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:13:09 +0000

Lilith Brouwers – 2017Legal status of sex work:Although sex work is legal in the Netherlands, it is limited by a wide range of laws and regulations that prescribe who can do sex work and under which circumstances. Generally, there is a municipal licence – and sometimes registration – required for sex work to be legal. […]

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DREGS Magazine: Response to Melissa Farley

English Collective of Prostitutes — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:58:53 +0000

by Carolina TalaveraHaving read the article “Legal or not, prostitution remains a harmful institution” by Melissa Farley in DREGS magazine, I write to comment and correct. In her piece, Farley makes a number of claims such as that prostitution is uniquely dangerous and damaging, and supports these claims with statistics and other evidence. On closer scrutiny […]

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Statement: We don’t want legalised brothels

English Collective of Prostitutes — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:45:46 +0000

Denis Hof, Nevada Bunny Ranch owner, proposes a temporary licence to run a brothel during the Olympics.Niki Adams, English Collective of Prostitutes, comments:“Sex workers don’t need or want licensed or legalised brothels so that bosses have more opportunities to exploit us. We want decriminalisation, like in New Zealand, so we can work together collectively and […]

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Daily Express: Should prostitution be legalised?

English Collective of Prostitutes — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:48:19 +0000

THERE are few clues as to what happens inside Stiletto, billed euphemistically as “the world’s finest short-stay boutique hotel”. It looks like any upmarket retreat but is the latest, most stylish flagship for the legalised sex industry in Sydney, Australia.Inside this high-class brothel, which cost more than £7million to create, there are Dali-inspired red lips […]

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Statement: Decriminalisation of prostitution v legalisation

English Collective of Prostitutes — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:13:41 +0000

Since it was founded in 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 -- no woman, child or man should be forced by poverty or violence into sex with anyone. Summary: Decriminalisation is […]

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The Criminalization of Survival: Poverty, Violence and Prostitution

English Collective of Prostitutes — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:20:48 +0000

Street Sheet, (San Francisco) June 2005, p7 You need look no further than the case of serial rapist Jack Bokin to know why the SF Board of Supervisors (BOS) resolution 1564, Mitigating Violence Against Prostitutes should be immediately implemented. Bokin had attacked and violently raped at least three women when Judge Perker Meeks let him […]

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BBC News: UK sex workers debate law change

English Collective of Prostitutes — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:59:39 +0000

Women working in the sex industry around the world will debate proposed changes to the UK prostitution laws at a conference on Saturday. The event in London is in response to the government's consultation paper on prostitution, published in July. It launched the UK's first re-think in decades of how to deal with the issue. […]

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Reuters: British prostitutes want their work decriminalised

English Collective of Prostitutes — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:28:11 +0000

British sex workers, facing the biggest shake-up of their profession for nearly 50 years, urged the government on Friday to decriminalise prostitution.Citing the example of New Zealand , which decriminalised the world's oldest profession last year, they said the move would destigmatise sex work and make prostitutes safer by allowing them to work at home rather than […]

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Evening Standard: Q&A with ECP’s Cari Mitchell

English Collective of Prostitutes — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:30:24 +0000

Plans for the biggest overhaul of laws on prostitution for half a century have been put forward by the government. The proposals include licensing brothels and compulsory health checks for prostitutes. Will they really help? We put Cari Mitchell of the English Collective of Prostitutes in the hotseat. How many prostitutes are there in Britain […]

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