THis was discussed on Woman's Hour this morning in an interview with Sarah Champion: 'As sex work moves online, are prostitution websites enabling a growth in exploitation and trafficking? Sarah Champion MP tells us why she believes UK legislation needs to be radically overhauled to keep pace with the changing face of prostitution'.
The law must now change to protect them". A cross-party group of MPs says the owners of such sites "directly and knowingly" profit from sex-trafficking and wants the Home Office to intervene. The group adds that a small number of sites "dominate the marketplace" and have named two in particular: Vivastreet and Adultwork. Three organisations - the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement Swarm , the English Collective of Prostitutes ECP , and the xTalk collective - are planning a demonstration outside Parliament at the time of this Wednesday's debate to protest against the suggested law change.
Our survey shows, a large proportion of student sex workers and perhaps sex workers in general are from marginalised backgrounds or are vulnerable. Decriminalization NUS supports the movement for the decriminalisation of sex work. We believe that sex work is work, the same as any other form of labour. Therefore sex workers should receive the same rights and employment.
Currently in the UK, whilst sex work itself is not illegal, there are a number of laws that criminalise the activities around it. These depend on region and nation, but throughout it is still highly stigmatised, and many forms of engaging in sex work are socially and legally discriminated against. We have even seen movement in wider politics, with the leader of the Labour Party coming out in support of decriminalisation in Embedded link re Jeremy Corbyn's support.
I see Jess Phillips has been reading out reviews from sex-buyer websites. It was a revelation to see how quickly some subreddits were banned from reddit , where services were offered seeing as website owners were now liable. Funny how the sites could do that if they had no idea of what was being sold and likely knew that a lot of people were trafficked. Even worse were all the woke bros decrying the law as sex negative, instead of focusing on the women.
