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.”
Event: End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & Planet, 9-11 June
Dear friends, Please register for this international and community gathering! ECP’s Niki Adams will be speaking at the session on Saturday 10 June 1:30-4:30pm (EDT) ‘End the Criminalization of Poverty and Protest’ All events are on Zoom as well as in personFor latest updates and speakers see the Global Women’s Strike website.
Action Alert: Tenants’ rights – NOT “sex for rent” laws!
The government is considering creating a new law to explicitly outlaw so-called “sex for rent” and has issued a “call for evidence”. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2023. Please click here to fill in the online questionnaire —- The ECP opposes legislation to outlaw “sex for rent” because: If a landlord harasses, threatens […]
AFP: UK sex workers take more risks due to cost-of-living crunch
Emeline BURCKEL Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is pushing more of its sex workers into taking potentially dangerous risks in order to make ends meet.Rocketing UK inflation — which remains above 10 percent — has forced even more vulnerable Britons into such work to pay spiralling bills, advocates for the sector say.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), which […]
Cosmopolitan: The Holbeck experiment – the city that tried to make sex work safer
As more people turn to sex work amid a cost-of-living crisis, what can we do to help – and protect – them? Jennifer Savin heads to the place that thought it had a solution BY JENNIFER SAVIN It could be any neighbourhood, anywhere. Kids whizz past blocks of flats and new-builds on scooters. Teenagers vape in […]
Metro: ‘We have to offer more for less, because we don’t have any other options’
By Lauren Crosby Medlicott, JournalistAfter a long working day at a London-based office job in the charity sector, there’s nothing Alex* would love more than to go out with friends or sit and binge on boxsets. Instead, Alex opens their ‘sex work’ phone en route to the gym and quickly replies to messages from clients who they’ll be seeing […]
Metro: Sex workers in the UK struggling since the pandemic say ‘I’d stop if I could’
Tanyel MustafaIt recently hit headlines that certain MPs were using sex workers abroad while on parliamentary trips.Other reports include police officers using robbed money on sex workers, and detectives arresting sex workers, only to have sex with them at the police station.While this activity happens, sex workers in the UK are being dealt an increasingly rough hand.Earlier this year, […]
ITV News: Spiralling living costs are making life ‘more dangerous’ for sex workers
WATCH HERE By ITV News’ Dani Sinha Often referred to as the world’s oldest profession, sex work is happening all around us – whether it’s online, on the streets or indoors. But spiralling living costs mean many sex workers are having to accept more potentially dangerous clients and work longer hours. It’s seen some women […]
Mashable: How the cost of living crisis is affecting sex workers’ safety
“More people, especially women, will be pushed into sex work; and current sex workers will be facing worse financial hardship.” By Beth Ashley on December 21, 2022 When the cost of living crisis struck the UK in full swing, 28-year-old porn performer Dana, decided it was time to get a “traditional job,” as she puts it. “I have some marketing training so I […]
Independent: Do we really need more proof that sex work should be decriminalised?
In the cost of living crisis, women are not being pushed into prostitution by abusers, traffickers or pimps, but by the wilful neglect of the state. The time to act is now Nadia Whittome, Lydia Caradonna As food banks fail to keep up with demand, and families cannot afford to put money on the […]