Mayfair raids Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/mayfair/ 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. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:23:34 +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 Mayfair raids Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/mayfair/ 32 32 Fighting raids and closures in Mayfair https://prostitutescollective.net/fighting-raids-and-closures-in-mayfair/ Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:48:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=14960 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 […]

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]]> New Statesman: Sex work is work – exploding the “sex trafficking” myth https://prostitutescollective.net/new-statesman-sex-work-is-work-exploding-the-sex-trafficking-myth/ Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:12:35 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=14951 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 […]

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]]> Legal Action for Women letter to police https://prostitutescollective.net/legal-action-women-letter-police/ Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:23:39 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=3806 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 […]

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]]> Londonist: On the Liberty of Shepherd Market https://prostitutescollective.net/londonist-on-the-liberty-of-shepherd-market/ Sun, 24 May 2009 21:32:36 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=14956 The 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. […]

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]]> MyLondon: Prostitutes in legal victory to keep working https://prostitutescollective.net/mylondon-prostitutes-in-legal-victory-to-keep-working/ Fri, 22 May 2009 21:23:49 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=14953 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 […]

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