Statement: For Prostitutes Against Prostitution (1990)
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Poverty
Prostitution is increasing because of austerity. A 60% increase in street prostitution recorded in Doncaster is primarily attributed to destitution caused by benefit sanctions,.with charities saying: “Women are being forced to sell sex for £5 because of benefit sanctions.” Sheffield reports a 166% increase (2014) while charity workers in Hull report: “ . . . women who are literally starving and they are out there to feed themselves.”
Statement: Anti-porn is the theory, repression is the practice
Introduction In October 1986, Julienne Dickey of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) wrote to the King’s Cross Women’s Centre, where the English Collective of Prostitutes is based, asking if the Centre would write an article for the book Feminism and Censorship – The Current Debate “regarding opposition to censorship of pornography, related to the […]
Network – News from the English Collective of Prostitutes 1983-1985
Between 1983–1985 we published Network – the first newsletter that we know of written and produced by sex workers. It gave us a voice against police abuse, poverty and the laws and reported on campaigns and victories here and internationally.
Statement: For Prostitutes and Against Prostitution (1975)
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