Red-light districts in Soho and Mayfair’s Shepherd Market are facing financial crises following the pandemic, an action group for sex workers has told The Londoner.Laura Watson of the English Collective of Prostitutes said: “Some places have had to shut because they can’t make enough money. Clients just weren’t coming in.”In Soho “three flats in one […]
Sex workers in Mayfair have been part of the ECP’s network since 2009 when police raided flats without warrants, bullying and threatening prosecution. In the same year, Westminster Council threatened women with closure of the flats under planning law on the grounds that they were residential properties being used for a business. Then a few […]
With the freedom to work, organise and fight, sex workers will end coercion in the trade. BY MARGARET CORVID I am lucky to have taken up my work as a dominatrix amid a revolution in our thinking about sex work. Writers like Laura Agustín and Melissa Gira Grant have taken apart our sexualised, othered image, and sex workers and […]
Legal Action for WomenCrossroads Women’s Centre PO Box 287 London NW6 5QUTel: 020 7482 2496 minicom/voice Fax: 020 7209 4761E-mail: law@allwomencount.netBernard Hogan-HoweMetropolitan Police Commissioner,New Scotland Yard, 8-10 Broadway,London, SW1H 0BG 18 September 2012Dear Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe,On 5 September, police officers from West End Central Vice Unit and ORB Safer Spaces Neighbourhood Team raided a […]
he Madames of Mayfair are celebrating a minor victory this weekend, having forced Westminster Council on to the retreat over the latter’s efforts to stop prostitutes working from flats in and around Shepherd Market. The English Collective of Prostitutes say that forcing their members to cease operating out of such premises will force them into danger on the streets. No […]
THE working girls of Mayfair have defeated an attempt by Westminster Council to close their businesses, by using planning laws against the Town Hall.Vice police raided several flats in Shepherd Market, near Green Park, which have for decades been used for prostitution and reported them to the council’s planning department.The council then sent letters to […]