Morality Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/morality/ 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. Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:36:56 +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 Morality Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/morality/ 32 32 OpenDemocracy: The false feminism of criminalising sex workers’ clients https://prostitutescollective.net/opendemocracy-the-false-feminism-of-criminalising-sex-workers-clients/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:21:34 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=10896 Feminist arguments against sex work are as influential as they are dangerous.Frankie Miren Laura Watson  EXPERT DISCUSSIONWe asked sex worker rights groups and allies around the world to discuss what works and doesn't work when arguing for the decriminalisation of sex work. This series reports what they said.Sex workers fight daily battles to defend our rights. […]

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]]> Sunday Times: Letter – response to Julie Bindel https://prostitutescollective.net/sunday-times-letter-in-response-to-julie-bindel/ Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:20:42 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=10278 ECONOMIC REALITY OF PROSTITUTIONThe feminist writer Julie Bindel describes prostitution as “harmful and abusive” and salaciously misrepresents the sex-worker-led movement to decriminalise it as the “happy hooker crew” (News Review, last week). In fact, it consists of women determined not to starve and see our children go without.Bindel condemns Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the […]

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]]> The Guardian: How can the Tories’ moralising report on prostitution completely ignore austerity? https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-how-can-the-tories-moralising-report-on-prostitution-completely-ignore-austerity/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:42:26 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9039 Poverty and crumbling social care have driven vulnerable people into sex work. You wouldn’t know it from this inquiry When Conservative MP Fiona Bruce chairs an inquiry into sex work, you don’t hold your breath for a triumph of progressiveness. This is a politician who is anti-abortion and has repeatedly voted against equal marriage. And yet […]

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]]> Morning Star: Letter (unpublished) – response to article ‘Prostitution Is Not Work’ https://prostitutescollective.net/morning-star-letters-response-article-prostitution-not-work-uniquely-extreme-form-commodification-abuse/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:23:16 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=6943 LETTER TO THE EDITOR.UnpublishedMick Parkin’s in his article Prostitution Is Not Work – It Is A Uniquely Extreme Form Of Commodification And Abuse joins a long line of men (and women) with apparently no qualms about defining sex workers’ experience for us.He claims to be concerned that our “intimate parts” shouldn’t be objectified but says […]

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]]> iai News: Why moral objections to sex work are hypocritical https://prostitutescollective.net/iai-news-moral-objections-sex-work-hypocritical/ Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:38:17 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=6796 Is Feminism Failing Sex Workers?Niki Adams | Spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes, Adams campaigns for the decriminalisation of sex work and for sex workers' safety. Does money make good women bad? If a woman in the street asks a man “Will you sleep with me?”, that is perfectly legal. But if he says yes […]

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]]> VICE: The Disturbing Trend of Vigilante Attacks on Sex Workers https://prostitutescollective.net/vice-the-disturbing-trend-of-vigilante-attacks-on-sex-workers/ Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:30:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19595 By Frankie Miren“Dirty whores.” “You should be put on fire.” So shouted the 100-strong mob as it surrounded the house of a group of women, thought to be sex workers, in Belfast on Friday 29th July. Vigilante attacks of this type aren’t new but this one was filmed and, if you have the stomach, you […]

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]]> Vice: How prudish laws from the 1950s make sex work dangerous today https://prostitutescollective.net/4888/ Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:07:49 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4888 By Frankie Mullin And here we are in 2016, discussion raging once more. Sex workers sidelined, once more. When the current UK inquiry gathered oral evidence there were three main witnesses: just one current sex worker, Laura Lee; a former prostitute and survivor of abuse within the industry, Mia de Faoite; and UK Feminista's Kat […]

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]]> The Guardian: Letter – responding to the Guardian view on criminal policy https://prostitutescollective.net/ecp-letter-in-the-guardian/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:45:52 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4802 Letters: Pros and cons of work in the sex industry I was at our women’s centre reading the Guardian editorial (8 April) when I took a call from a woman charged with brothel-keeping for working with a friend. I asked her how she got into prostitution. “A man came round to cut off the gas and I […]

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]]> Socialist Fight: Sex Work – No Client Criminalisation https://prostitutescollective.net/sex-work-client-criminalisation/ Mon, 07 Mar 2016 20:01:00 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4128 From Socialist Fight No 19 – February/March 2015 By Niki Adams, English Collective of Prostitutes For years sex workers, burdened by stigma and discrimination, found it hard to speak and organise in our own name. This has started to change and a recent example shows how effective campaigns spearheaded by sex workers can be. In November last year, Fiona Mactaggart MP tried […]

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]]> Politics.co.uk: Sex workers’ rights are not up for debate https://prostitutescollective.net/comment-sex-workers-rights-debate/ Sun, 24 May 2015 08:13:57 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4292 Sex work: The feminist criticism of the industry has sparked an aggressive debateBy Pandora Blake and Niki AdamsLast week the New Statesman organised a debate on "buying and selling sex" at Conway Hall, in collaboration with London Thinks. Here, Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes and Pandora Blake of the Sex Worker's Open […]

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