Los Angeles Conference 14 March 1997All sex workers must be decriminalised whether they work on the street or in premises.Scrap the prostitution laws: they criminalize sex workers, divide us from our families and friends, make us vulnerable to violence, and set us apart from the rest of the community — separate is never equal.An end to […]
Click here to read the document: For Prostitutes Against Prostitution For original 1975 version please see here: For Prostitutes Against Prostitution (1975)
Since 1981, when the English Collective of Prostitutes issued the first rights sheet for prostitute women in England and Wales, we have been taking up cases of false arrest and intimidation by police. In 1982, we occupied the Church of the Holy Cross in King’s Cross, London, for 12 days. We were inspired by […]
Excerpt from Some Mother’s Daughter, The Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence, International Prostitutes Collective, Crossroads Books 1999, pp49-51.1981: The trial of the Yorkshire Ripper, serial murderer Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women.PROSTITUTES ARE INNOCENT OK!We are picketing today to protest against the handling of the Ripper case — by the court, the police and the […]
First public statement of what later became the English Collective of Prostitutes. FOR PROSTITUTES AGAINST PROSTITUTION In a recent issue of the London Women’s Liberation Workshop Newsletter, the minutes of the Workshop Collective claimed ‘We support prostitutes, but not prostitution’. The eight or so sentences in the minutes on the attitude to prostitutes/ prostitution give […]