Not an Occupational Hazard

Shelley Stoops has kindly forwarded this article written for Criminal Law and Justice Weekly. It is subscription publication read by magistrates, lawyers, judges and copies are sent to every police depatement. It is an important publication informing the minds of those who judge sex workers in the literal sense. Shelly Stoops says that violence against [...]

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Lets be part of the solution. Part 2

Two very nasty people were jailed recently for people trafficking.  They duped 6 Romanian women to Manchester with promises of work.  They were raped and  forced into prostitution and made to work in Manchester’s brothels.  Marius Nejloveanu, 23 was given the longest ever prison sentence (for the UK) of 21 years for people trafficking, and [...]

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Jacqui Smith to host radio program on Porn

Our friend Jacqui Smith who helped bring in new proscriptive legislation on prostitution in the UK before the demise of the Labour Government, met with the wrath of the electorate.  She was the Minister who had to resign, and eventually lost her seat in parliament when it came to light she had claimed on expenses [...]

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Sex in Ancient Greece…

While browsing You Tube I found this presentation talking about sex in ancient Greece. I was especially of course interested in the description of prostitution. I was struck by how little things have changed and again by how much, sadly; things have changed. We still have a multi layered industry as in ancient Greece (something [...]

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Sweden proposes increasing the penalty for the purchase of sex

Sweden already imposes a maximum sentence of 6 month imprisonment for the purchase of sex.  The courts though have been more lenient and imposed fines of 50 days earnings. 50 days earnings in my book is quite a heavy fine.  Compare that with driving with out insurance in the UK! Justice Minister Beatrice Ask, who [...]

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Sex workers are people, too, ad campaign reminds us

I noticed the link to this article on a face book friends page. I immediately thought that this is exactly the sort of advertising that we need here in the UK. These adverts were created free of charge which suggests that sex work activists in Canada are as short of cash as activists here in [...]

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ARE THE VOICES OF MEN AND WOMEN EQUAL WITHIN SEX WORK ACTIVISM?

I have written this as a discussion piece. It was prompted by a conversation that I had with an activist who told me that should I (a gay man) speak publicly about sex work; that I should only speak about my personal experiences ie as a gay man selling sex. Interesting though my experiences are; [...]

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The impact of adult entertainment on rape statistics in Camden: a re-analysis.

In 2003, an anti sex work research organisation (Lilith Research and Development, a subsidiary project of Eaves Women’s Aid) published research equating the opening of Lap Dancing clubs to an increase in reported rape. The research stated that after lap dancing clubs opened in Camden, reported rape increased by 50%. A few years later the [...]

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Swedish footballers convicted of buying sex

From the Swedish Local Newspaper Hedman, who stood between the posts for Sweden’s national side between 1997 and 2004, admitted to police that he had sex with a young Romanian girl in a friend’s apartment in February 2010. However, he claimed he had no idea the woman was a prostitute, an argument which the Stockholm [...]

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Sex establishments consultation: majority say no to Hackney Council’s ‘nil’ policy

It is so disheartening to read about the implementation of such obviously discriminatory policy in the London borough of Hackney.The council are making a fool of democracy. To dress discrimination and bigotry as some sort of feminist victory is to hammer yet another nail in the coffin of feminism as a pro rights movement, a [...]

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