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Sex work

March 2023

  • Journey, an exhibit that traces the ordeal of a woman from her home in eastern Europe, to a brothel where she is enslaved, to her battles with the Home Office for asylum.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Stop demonising them’: the trafficking victims left behind by UK’s new illegal migration bill

    Police found Julia being exploited in a brothel. She helped bring her abusers to justice but new legislation could silence victims and empower traffickers, experts warn
  • Eileen McLeod

    Other lives
    Eileen McLeod obituary

    Other lives: Social work professor whose research focused on the link between health inequalities and social problems
  • The European Medicines Agency headquarters in Amsterdam

    European drug agency opposes Amsterdam’s erotic centre plans

    EMA says relocation of sex workers to area near its HQ could bring problems associated with red light district

February 2023

  • Lotte Latham, author of Dear Mr Andrews

    The fantasy of sugar dating: ‘They don’t want you to be a sex worker – they just want to pay you for sex’

    Lotte Latham tried being a ‘sugar baby’ – dating older men for gifts and money – then began working as an escort instead. Her new memoir Dear Mr Andrews explains why

November 2022

  • Carrie* at her home in Leeds.

    Woman groomed and abused in care gets apology after 30 years

  • Dimakatso Tshabangu is a young mother from Soshanguve, Pretoria.

    ‘There’s no protection’: South Africa faces Covid legacy of sex for money

  • Caroline Quentin as Kitty Warren in Mrs Warren’s Profession at Theatre Royal, Bath

    Mrs Warren’s Profession review – Caroline Quentin’s bewitching madam

  • A crowded street in Amsterdam's red light district at night

    Multi-storey ‘erotic centre’ set to replace Amsterdam red light district – if locals can agree where

September 2022

  • Fiona Patten

    From sex activist to progressive trailblazer: Fiona Patten’s remarkable rise to influence

    The new wave of teal independents seeking to impact politics could learn a lot from Victoria’s ‘hardest working MP’

August 2022

  • Laure Calamy in Her Way.

    Her Way review – a sex-worker mum puts her life on the line

    Call My Agent!’s Laure Calamy excels as a Strasbourg sex worker forced outside her safety zone to rescue her wayward son
  • Her Way (Blue Finch Film Releasing) Press publicity film still

    Her Way review – portrait of a sex worker shreds cinema’s cliches

    Laure Calamy of Call My Agent! fame is mesmerising as a sex worker of a certain age in Cécile Ducrocq’s perceptive and humane feature debut
  • In the absence of aid and banking, people in Tigray had been largely relying on money from family and friends, but restrictions have been imposed.

    Hunger in Tigray pushing women and girls into sex work

    People turn to desperate measures after authorities stop 6 million people accessing their own money

July 2022

  • Couple in the sheets

    A sex worker gave my autistic son the gift of confidence – and I organised the encounter

    Anonymous
    Until he finds the right girl and a loving relationship, how better to channel his sexuality in a healthy way?
  • Women celebrate

    Bristol lapdancers celebrate council vote to keep clubs open

    ‘We’re screaming for joy’: activists hail decision, but others condemn failure to tackle ‘sexist culture that underpins male violence’

    • UK armed forces introduce ban on use of sex workers abroad

    • Rights and freedom
      Ukraine prosecutors uncover sex trafficking ring preying on women fleeing country

    • The tide is finally turning in Italy in favour of protecting women in the sex trade

      Julie Bindel

June 2022

  • P-Valley

    TV review
    P-Valley season two review – the opening is as brilliant a spectacle as you’ll find on television

  • Daryl McCormack

    ‘I knew I was in good hands’: Peaky Blinders’ Daryl McCormack on shooting sex scenes with Emma Thompson

May 2022

  • Members of the feminist group Les Colleuses hold a banner bearing the names of 129 women killed in France since the last time the festival was held.

    Group invades Cannes red carpet to highlight violence towards women

    Protest came before premiere of Holy Spider, based on story of man who killed at least 16 women in Iran
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