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.”
DAVID Blunkett is using the Home Office consultation paper on prostitution, Paying the Price, to promote his own punitive agenda of compulsory health checks and registration with the police (Bold move to legalise brothels, 16 July).The report focuses on the “95 per cent of street workers [who] are drug users” — a statistic we would […]
The Editor,At last, a vindication of the rights of Monica Coghlan, a working class woman who came to court 14 years ago and told the truth about Jeffrey Archer. Ms Coghlan like many other women in the eighties fled the poverty of the North and went into prostitution in London to support her young child.In court […]
By Denyse Renne”I am not a prostitute nor am I against prostitution; I am against persecution.”So says fiery Clothill Walcott, President of National Union of Domestic Workers (NUDE).A veteran in the women’s movement, Walcott is upset over the exploitation of women, including prostitutes.”If you say equal opportunities or equal rights for women, how can you […]
Click here to read the document: For Prostitutes Against Prostitution For original 1975 version please see here: For Prostitutes Against Prostitution (1975)
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 […]
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.
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