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.”
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
“If the majority of sex workers are mothers, that’s a condemnation of the society that we live in,” says Niki Adams of the English Collective of ProstitutesNiki and former Home Office adviser Nimco Ali discuss sex work in the UK#PoliticsLive https://t.co/YaKq4i6aZH pic.twitter.com/w1FYTkVdQ2— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 13, 2022
Gergana KrastevaPolice may exploit increased powers against sex workers in east London, a campaign group has claimed.The English Collective of Prostitutes has dubbed Newham Council’s proposal for a Public Space Protection Order for Romford Road as a ‘crackdown’ on sex workers, adding it would only ‘undermine’ their safety.Such orders are commonly used to stop anti-social behaviour […]
As the cost of living crisis spreads, more women are starting to sell sex and many are taking greater risks Alexandra Heal in Sheffield and Anna Gross in LondonTiffany smoothed her hair in the bathroom mirror and took off her wedding ring. Little knots were tightening in her stomach. The former civil servant climbed into the car next to […]
By Frankie McCamley & Bethan Bell Violence has always stalked the streets where sex is bought and sold and sometimes just taken.Women employed in the “world’s oldest profession” face a very real danger. Jack the Ripper may have been consigned to history and folklore, but many other predatory men have stepped into his shadows.And the women […]
Minnie Stephenson News CorrespondentThe cost of living crisis is causing a significant rise in the number of women returning to sex work, according to the English Collective of Prostitutes.And the organisation says women are putting themselves in much more dangerous situations as they struggle to pay their energy bills and feed their families.The numbers asking […]