Survival Sex Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/survival-sex/ 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. Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:08:53 +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 Survival Sex Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/survival-sex/ 32 32 Video: ITV Cymru Wales – Selling Sex to Survive https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-cymru-wales-selling-sex-to-survive/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:08:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17905 Wales This Week has found that the number of women selling sex in Wales has almost doubled in the last 18 months. In the grip of a cost of living crisis, the programme investigates why more women are turning to sex work to make ends meet, and hears calls for a change in the laws, to […]

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]]> ITV Cymru Wales: Growing number of women turning to sex work amid “colossal” rise in living costs https://prostitutescollective.net/itv-cymru-wales-growing-number-of-women-turning-to-sex-work-amid-colossal-rise-in-living-costs/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:54:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17903 An increasing number of women are turning to sex work "to make ends meet".The number of active accounts registered to women in Wales on the website AdultWork.com has risen from 260 at the beginning of 2023 to 461. The website describes itself as an "online directory for adult service providers".Laura Watson, a spokesperson for the […]

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]]> Cosmopolitan: The Holbeck experiment – the city that tried to make sex work safer https://prostitutescollective.net/cosmopolitan-the-holbeck-experiment-the-city-that-tried-to-make-sex-work-safer/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:13:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17686 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 […]

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]]> BBC News: Cost of living: – The women doing sex work to make ends meet https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-news-cost-of-living-the-women-doing-sex-work-to-make-ends-meet/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:03:24 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17563 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 […]

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]]> Sky News: Cost of living crisis pushing more women into sex work – and unable to refuse dangerous clients https://prostitutescollective.net/sky-news-cost-of-living-crisis-pushing-more-women-into-sex-work-and-unable-to-refuse-dangerous-clients/ Sat, 20 Aug 2022 08:26:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17098 More women are turning to sex work for the first time, while others who have managed to leave it behind are having to return in order to pay their bills, outreach workers have told Sky News.The cost of living crisis is pushing more women into sex work and leaving them unable to say no to […]

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]]> The Justice Gap: Sex work in a pandemic – criminalising survival https://prostitutescollective.net/the-justice-gap-sex-work-in-a-pandemic-criminalising-survival/ Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:09:01 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=14997 Image: English Collective of ProstitutesAusterity cuts, the introduction of the harsh Universal Credit scheme and the Hostile Environment has driven more people to sex work to meet their basic needs. Despite this, sex work remains a criminalised profession that is not recognised as legitimate work. The pandemic further exposes the injustice caused to sex workers […]

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]]> Metro: Women forced into survival sex by benefit cuts face unimaginable violence https://prostitutescollective.net/metro-women-forced-into-survival-sex-by-benefit-cuts-face-unimaginable-violence/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:23:53 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=10217 Jane Wharton ‘Draconian laws’ and increasing poverty have exposed sex workers to soaring rates of rape and assault, according to a leading pressure group. The English Collective of Prostitutes says two thirds had experienced violence within the last month alone. It has also highlighted that poverty sparked by benefit cuts have led to a surge […]

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]]> Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry into Universal Credit and Survival Sex (2019) https://prostitutescollective.net/work-and-pensions-committee-inquiry-into-universal-credit-and-survival-sex-2019/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:05:47 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=14401 Written and oral evidence from the ECP to the Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry into Universal Credit and Survival Sex focused on the impact of austerity on levels of prostitution in the UK. The Committee published its findings in November 2019 and recommended action against some of the worst injustices of the benefit system such as draconian […]

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]]> Independent: Austerity pushing women into sex work and criminalisation endangering them, major report finds https://prostitutescollective.net/independent-austerity-pushing-women-into-sex-work-and-criminalisation-endangering-them-major-report-finds/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:14:17 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9108 'I was in a desperate financial situation, no parents to support me and about to become homeless. As I am disabled and was in full-time education, my opportunities for work were, and remain, limited,' says womanMaya Oppenheim Women's Correspondent @mayaoppenheimAusterity is pushing women into prostitution and the criminalisation of the industry is putting them in danger, according […]

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]]> Press Release: Government research proves sex workers feel unsafe under the current law https://prostitutescollective.net/press-release-government-research-proves-sex-workers-feel-unsafe-under-the-current-law/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 11:28:08 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9105 Government research proves sex workers feel unsafe under the current law; they want decriminalisation and so does the public.Government research published today provides evidence that the current prostitution laws increase the chance of harm and undermine sex workers’ safety.Laura Watson from the English Collective of Prostitutes which submitted evidence from its national network of sex workers working […]

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