Länderberichte GROSSBRITANNIEN:

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Prostitutions-Recht wird in England gerade intensiv im Ober- und Unterhaus beraten

hier eine genaue Analyse der Verhältnisse:

Gut zu wissen für alle, die in Gesetzes-Reform-Kommissionen mitarbeiten.



Trying to make a silk purse from a sow's ear?
A comment on the government's prostitution strategy

Margaret Melrose

Community Safety Journal; Apr 2006; 5, 2; Research Library

http://tinyurl.com/2e373e
(10 Seiten - 11 MB!)





Quelle:
http://myweb.dal.ca/mgoodyea/Documents/UK/





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Britische Gesellschaft der Psychologen
kommentiert kritisch den Gesetzesentwurf
insbesondere gegen die Straßenprostitution


http://tinyurl.com/2yv76c
(PDF - 4 Seiten)


Sehr interessante Unterstützung der Sexarbeiter
von einer bürgerlichen, berufsständigen Fachorganisation.





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[JayR]

Plan to cut phone links to callgirls

MINISTERS want to block the phone numbers of prostitutes who advertise their services in newspapers and telephone booths in an attempt to stifle the illegal sex trade.

Police forces would identify suspected prostitutes to the telephone companies, which would be required to cut off their numbers.

The proposal has emerged in a six-month review of prostitution laws by ministers from three government departments. They are also considering making it illegal to pay for sex.

Vera Baird, the solicitor-general, said it was important to curb “the industry of prostitution” and the demand for call girls if the stream of trafficked women into Britain was to be stemmed.

Critics warned that blocking telephones could drive the trade underground, making it harder to police, and would force more women to walk the streets in the search for business. They also warned that it could criminalise legitimate escorts.

“It is 10 times more dangerous to work on the streets than in a flat. It will drive it underground,” said Cari Mitchell of the English Collective of Prostitutes.

Last month Baird, Vernon Coaker, a Home Office minister, and Barbara Follett, the women’s minister, visited Sweden where it is a criminal offence to pay for sex. All the main Swedish telephone companies have a voluntary agreement with the phone regulator to cut off the lines of brothels and prostitutes.

Prostitution visibly decreased in Sweden after the initial crack-down in 1999; but it has now moved from the streets to hotel rooms, organised through the internet, and to neighbouring countries.

The ministers have already spoken to local and regional newspaper representatives about withdrawing advertisements for prostitutes — often promoted under the guise of massage services.

Baird also wants more local newspapers to publicly name and shame men convicted of kerb-crawling as a deterrent to others. She praised local papers in Middlesbrough for identifying men who have been convicted of using prostitutes.

Other MPs fear that the measures could backfire.

Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat equalities spokeswoman, said: “It is a very good thing that the government is looking at this, but there is a danger that it could drive prostitution underground. Any moves to try to eradicate the client side would have to be incredibly carefully handled. In an ideal world prostitution shouldn’t exist, but we don’t live in an ideal world.”

Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/p ... 342045.ece


It is not illegal to sell sexual services in the United Kingdom. This proposal will affect primarily independent sex workers and significantly impact upon their ability to work independently and safely. Do we really want sex workers to be without the ability to make emergency calls if they are attacked by clients?

Ruth Morgan Thomas, Edinburgh,
SCOT-PEP
http://www.scot-pep.org.uk/

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Sexworker Lobbying war erfolgreich

Lords haben umstrittene Gesetzesentwürfe Prostitution zurückgezogen

Clauses 123, 124 & 125 have been withdrawn today by the government in the House of Lords!



Dear all

I am very pleased to inform you that Lord Hunt of Kings Heath announced this
afternoon that the Government had decided to withdraw the three clauses in the
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill relating to prostitution. This is a
significant victory, and gives us all the opportunity to prepare for the
introduction of a new bill in the next session of Parliament which I hope all
of us will find more acceptable than the ill-considered proposals in this one.
Thanks to all of you for your helpful briefing and skilful lobbying. I am
sending this message to everyone who has taken the trouble to write to me.

Best regards
Richard Faulkner.
____________________________
Lord Faulkner of Worcester
House of Lords
London SW1A 0PW
Tel: +44 207 219 8503
Fax:+44 207 219 1460
Mobile +44 7785 261785
Email: faulknerro [at] parliament.uk
Website:
www.lordfaulkner.net











Update on the situation in the UK Parliament

The debate in the House of Lords over the Criminal Justice Bill has been
delayed, due to other legislative priorities, but has been proceeding slowly
through this very large omnibus Bill. It is not known when the prostitution
clauses would be debated.

This is a government Bill that proposed amongst other measures to replace the
words 'common prostitute' with 'every person', create a new offence of
persistent loitering, and provide for mandatory 'rehabilitation', with a
penalty of 72 hours detention.

When this was sent to committee, a number of private member's amendments were
tabled.

1. To remove all provisions except the 'common prostitute' one.
2. To insert a new clause exempting two women with or without a maid from the
definition of Brothel.

A third amendment then appeared (not surprisingly) from a Christian
fundamentalist which would criminalise the purchase of sex, as in Sweden. This
is being staunchly opposed.

In the mean time, in response to pressure from extremists, the Government has
undertaken to pursue yet another review of prostitution. Expert opinion is that
this is fairly low level. A few ministers went to Sweden and the Netherlands to
see for themselves these two contrasting approaches. So far they have only
commented about the Swedish visit, and those views were met with generally
hostile public opinion.

Symbolically there is little political capital for the Government in all this.
If the Lords succeeded in defeating these relatively small legislative measures,
the Government realises it has no hope of passing more controversial
measures (eg criminalising sale and purchase).

Public opinion is not supportive of more restrictive legislation and more
recently the media are asking more critical questions and casting doubts on the
claims on trafficking. A major campaign to raid all indoor premises (usually
with all the press in tow) and 'rescue' sex slaves has turned up virtually
nothing, and been a human rights disaster. As has been pointed out by several
researchers, this obsession with slavery has meant the authorities are ignoring
the fact that there are many sex workers, particularly migrants working under
very poor conditions, and being exploited because they are vulnerable.

Suddenly the Government caved in today and withdrew all the measures relating to
prostitution in the Bill. I believe they sensed they were going to be defeated
over this. British sex workers and their allies have been gathering support
from around the world, and here in Canada we presented lengthy submissions on
the legislation.

M.G.





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

On-line Petition

gegen Schwedische Verhältnisse im Königreich


We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to reject proposals to drive prostitution further underground by prosecuting clients of prostitutes; to endorse the policy suggested by the Royal College of Nursing, the National Association of Probation Officers and others by decriminalising prostitution; and to observe Council of Europe Resolution 1579 of October 2007.




Criminalising clients means: Street prostitutes revert to darker less safe areas * don’t carry condoms (as used in evidence) * they have little time to appraise clients and weigh up risk * dispersal breaks up informal networks, needed for protection, and inhibits health services' ability * trafficking victims are less likely to be helped * prices have fallen so they have to work longer with more clients, and accept clients + acts they would have rejected .

We call upon Government to decriminalise + to comply with Council of Europe Resolution 1579 (Oct 2007), specifically:

"…avoid double standards + policies which force prostitutes underground or under the influence of pimps..; instead...seek to empower them..by..refraining from criminalising…prostitutes + developing programmes to assist (them) leave the profession should they wish to..;…ensuring prostitutes have access to safe sexual practices...respect the right of prostitutes who freely choose (prostitution) to have a say in.. policies..;..ending the abuse of power by the police + other public authorities towards prostitutes.."




Submitted by Stephen Paterson – Deadline to sign up by: 03 September 2008

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/sexworkers/





Antwort der Regierung:
http://sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=50958#50958





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[Tanja_Regensburg]

Studentin und Hure - in Großbritannien nichts besonderes mehr

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Fast acht Prozent der britischen Studentinnen, so wird vermutet, leben heute von Prostitution. Die Zahlen steigen ständig: 1999 waren es noch 4 Prozent, 2006 wurden 6 Prozent ermittelt - und heute sind eben acht.

Als Grund werden die hohen Studiengebühren genannt. "man muss damit rechnen, aus einem Studium mit Schulden von ungefähr 15.000 GBP heraufzukommen, wissen englische Insider. Die Theorie ist, dass dieses Geld dann später, wenn man gut verdient, wieder zurückgezahlt werden kann.

Darauf wollen aber nicht alle warten. Eine junge Studentin sagt, wie man es macht: Zwei Nächte die Woche arbeitet sie für eine "Begleitagentur", macht damit in der Woche 900 GBP und weiß, dass dann auch noch was vom Geld übrig bleibt. "Besser, als in einer Bar zu bedienen" sagte eine der Studentinnen der "Times" - und vor allem: viel mehr Zeit zum Studieren. Sie nennt auch die Alternative: Regale auffüllen im Supermarkt - 5 GBP die Stunde.

Die britische Gesellschaft ist nicht eben erfreut über diese Entwicklung und kritisiert die Studiengebühren, während sich die Begleitagenturen freuen. Ein Insider erklärte mir, dass die Kunden sich junge, intelligente Frauen wünschten - und vor allem auch solche, denen man die Hure nicht gleich ansehen würde.

Die Kehrseite der Medaille? Viele Frauen finden die Sexarbeit so attraktiv, dass sie den Beruf wechseln. Dazu erklärt die TIMES, dass eine Akademikerin in Großbritannien zu Anfang gerade mal ungefähr 21.000 GBP pro Jahr verdienen würde. Das ist sehr wenig, vor allem für Londoner Verhältnisse. Kein Wunder, dass die Branche lockt: Ungefähr 500 GBP am Tag würde man verdienen, locken die Agenturen - das sind an 20 Tagen immerhin 10.000 Pfund.


http://www.lust-und-mehr.de/50226711/st ... s_mehr.php

Liebe Grüße Tanja

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Erfinder der SOHO-Stripclubs gestorben

"KING OF SOHO" PAUL RAYMOND
Britischer "Porno-König" gestorben

Nackte Tatsachen machten ihn zum Millionär: Die Römischen Verträge zur Gründung der EU waren kaum geschlossen, da engagierte Paul Raymond bereits Frauen, die zu Musik die Hüllen fallen ließen. Nun ist der britische "Porno-König", wie man ihn auf der Insel nennt, im Alter von 82 Jahren gestorben.

London - Manche sagen, der Sittenverfall habe im Vereinigten Königreich an dem Tag begonnen, an dem Paul Raymond seine "Revuebar" im Londoner Stadtteil Soho eröffnete - und das offizielle Striptease-Verbot geschickt umging. Immerhin war die Bar ein privater Club, der Einlass war an die Mitgliedschaft geknüpft. Das schien die Briten 1958 nicht zu stören - in kurzer Zeit hatten sich 45.000 Gäste registriert. Raymond wurde zum "König von Soho". Genau 50 Jahre später ist er nun im Alter von 82 Jahren gestorben.

Raymond brachte es als Unternehmer im Londoner Nachtleben zu Reichtum: Sein Vermögen wird auf umgerechnet 848 Millionen Euro geschätzt. Er gab mehrere Porno- und Männer-Zeitschriften heraus, darunter "Razzle", "Men's World" und "Mayfair".

Besonderer Beliebtheit erfreute sich das Blatt "European Report", in dem Fiona Richmond, Schwimmerin, Model und Affäre von Raymond, freimütig über die Qualitäten der Männer vom "Kontinent" philosophierte.

Raymond wurde wegen seiner publizistischen Tätigkeiten auch als britisches Pendant zum Gründer des "Playboy" in den USA, Hugh Heffner, bezeichnet. Seine Einkünfte nutzte er, um Ende der siebziger Jahre zahlreiche leerstehende Immobilien in Soho zu kaufen.

Geboren wurde der Sohn eines Spediteurs als Geoffrey Anthony Quinn. Im Alter von 15 Jahren verließ er die Schule und versuchte einen Einsteg ins Showgeschäft. Nach einer Tätigkeit als Produzent für ein Variété begann er 1958 mit dem Striptease-Geschäft.
han/AFP

Original mit Fotostrecke:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,539116,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Raymo ... blisher%29





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Sexarbeiter und ihre Interessenvertreter haben einen Sieg errungen im Gesetzgebungsverfahren gegen ein bedrohliches Gesetz, welches nichtkonforme Frauen mit Gefängnis bedrohte.


Safety First Coalition forces government to drop law to compulsory “rehabilitate” and increase arrests of sex workers.



Overwhelming opposition, co-ordinated by the Safety First Coalition, has forced the government to drop clauses on prostitution in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill.


Clause 123 proposed a change in the definition of soliciting which would have made it easier for the police to arrest sex workers, while Clauses 124 and 125 would have forced those arrested into compulsory “rehabilitation” under threat of imprisonment.


Initiated by the English Collective of Prostitutes, the Safety First Coalition worked tirelessly to defeat this legislation. Opposition within parliament was co-ordinated by MP John McDonnell, Baroness Stern and Lord Faulkner.



A high point of the campaign was a packed meeting in the House of Commons which heard from Catherine Healy of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective. She highlighted the positive effects the decriminalisation of prostitution introduced in New Zealand five years ago has had on women’s safety, prompting many to demand that decriminalisation be considered here. There was general indignation [Empörung] at the way the government had pushed the Bill through the Commons without any discussion of the prostitution clauses despite wide public concern.



As the Bill came to the Lords, peers were inundated [überschwemmt] with submissions from a wide range of people: bereaved families, members of the Church, the Royal College of Nursing, anti-poverty and anti-rape campaigners, drug and prison reformers, sex workers, academics and many others wrote in support of three amendments by Lord Faulkner to delete the clauses on soliciting and compulsory rehabilitation. Many also supported an amendment to change the definition of a brothel to allow women to work together.



Ipswich residents condemned compulsory “rehabilitation” having seen how it was “not working” locally. Others raised that the “trusting relationship and mutual respect” needed to help women get out of prostitution “can’t be done with the shadow of imprisonment hanging over them”. Outrage was expressed at how the power to imprison women for 72 hours would “clog up police cells/prison places and add to the already critical problem of prison overcrowding”. Complaints were made about the lack of resources to address the poverty, homelessness, debt, domestic violence and drug use which drive many women into prostitution and of “effective training and drug treatment programmes” for those who need them.



Countering government misinformation, the Coalition exposed how the “rehabilitation” orders were not an “alternative to a fine” since fines were not being abolished and women would still be criminalised, including for breaking the orders. There were objections to the government using the long overdue measure to abolish the term “common prostitute [gemeine Prostituierte]” to hide the proposed widening of persistent soliciting.



Demanding that safety be prioritised, many outlined that any law which further criminalises sex workers or clients would endanger women by “forcing prostitution underground” and “taking police and other criminal justice resources off those people who exploit or commit violent crimes against sex workers”.



Many were glad for the detailed rebuttal in the Safety First Coalition briefing of the way in which trafficking is being used to justify a clampdown on prostitution generally. A practicing Roman Catholic spoke of his experience visiting detention centres for asylum seekers, including “women from overseas who had been working as prostitutes and were being 'removed' against their will and returned to the circumstances of poverty and desperation which had led them to move to Britain.”



This wide ranging opposition to the prostitution clauses was clearly evident at a private meeting with Ministers at which Peers made clear that they were not prepared to give in and that a lengthy debate was unavoidable. Shortly after, using the time restraints to cover for their humiliating climb down, the government announced that the Clauses were being withdrawn in order to ensure that the Bill received Royal Assent before a voluntary agreement expired banning prison officers’ right to strike.


An amendment by Baroness Cox to criminalise men who buy sex (based on a similar amendment proposed by MP Denis McShane) also fell.


Opposition to recent government proposals that drug users who refuse compulsory “rehabilitation” may lose their benefits and the long-term unemployed may be evicted from their homes is also growing. Many of those made destitute [bettelarm] by these proposals are likely to be propelled into the sex industry to make ends meet.



While the Safety First Coalition is delighted with this victory and thanks everyone who worked hard to defend sex workers rights. We are aware that the government wants to reintroduce similar legislation in the autumn when it concludes its review of the prostitution laws. But we know that most people disagree with criminalisation and urge everyone to keep up the pressure and sign our petition on LINK.





Coalition members commented


“We welcome the removal of these amendments . . . Criminalisation would have driven underground those in need of properly funded and staffed healthcare support. . . . We now urge the Government to look at improving the healthcare and well-being of these workers and begin to provide pathways out for these men and women.”

Royal College of Nursing



”I welcome the government’s announcement and hope that it signals a future approach towards prostitution underlined by welfare measures rather than criminalisation, putting the needs and safety of sex workers above the desire for moral condemnation.”

John McDonnell MP



”This makes a dent in the government’s punitive policies on people living in poverty in the UK.”

Revd Paul Nicolson, Zacchaeus 2000 Trust.



“ This victory is important because the suggestion that women should be jailed for up to 72 hours is not only unworkable but cruel. The whole emphasis now should be on keeping women out of jail in line with the Corston Report recommendations.”

Pauline Campbell mother of Sarah who died in HMP Styal



The determined and wide-ranging opposition to these degrading and dangerous proposals ensures that we are well placed to prevent the government reintroducing them. Claims by government feminists and Christian fundamentalists that all prostitution is violence have not deterred the growing movement for the decriminalisation of prostitution which is demanding that consenting sex be distinguished from rape and other violence and that safety be prioritised.

English Collective of Prostitutes





FFI 020 7482 2496
ecp@allwomencount.net

www.prostitutesCollective.net





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Diskussion in Schottland um eine mögliche Einführung des Schwedisches Regimes:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/newsf ... -20349217/





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[KonTom]

Wo die Liebe hinfällt: In der südenglischen Grafschaft Wiltshire ist ein Mann verhaftet worden, weil er vorgegeben hat, Sex mit einem Laternenpfahl zu haben. Zeugen hatten ausgesagt, der 32-Jährige habe sich auf eindeutige Art und Weise an der Laterne zu schaffen gemacht.

Laut Angaben des britischen "Telegraph" wurde der "liebestolle" Engländer später nach Zahlung einer Kaution freigelassen. Der Vorfall ist der bislang letzte in einer Reihe von Fällen von "Sex mit ungewöhnlichen Gegenständen".

Erst im Oktober vergangen Jahres hat sich ein Brite wegen "Sex" mit einem Fahrrad vor einem englischen Gericht verantworten müssen. Nur mit einem T-Shirt bekleidet, ansonsten aber ganz so, wie Gott ihn schuf, hatte es sich Robert Stewart in einem kleinen Hotel im schottischen Ayr mit seinem Drahtesel gemütlich gemacht.

"Er hielt das Fahrrad mit seinen Händen und bewegte dann seine Hüften vor und zurück, so als ob er Sex mit seinem Rad hätte", schildert eine Augenzeugin den Vorfall. Die schockierten Angestellten alarmierten daraufhin den Hoteldirektor, der die Polizei rief.

Quelle

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Please join us by signing http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/sexworkers

TODAY marks the one month anniversary of the launch of our Downing Street petition in the UK.

The petition calls for rejection of the Swedish regime, decriminalisation of prostitution, and for the UK to come into line with the Council of Europe’s policy of empowering prostitutes and giving them a say in policy making.

So far the petition has achieved 267 signatures, making it easily the largest Downing Street site ePetition on prostitution to date.

Signatories include two professors, two lecturers with doctorates, and an MBE (sorry if I’ve missed out any credentials of other signatories but I’m just reading the petition). A notable point is the apparent equality between sexes among signatories - I had feared it being dominated by males.

Downing Street already lists our six month petition as 435th in numbers of signatories out of 7.018 on its site, where petitions can be lodged for up to a year. This puts it in the top 6.2% with five months to run.

A Downing Street petition entitled “criminalisemen” - which calls for the introduction of the Swedish regime in the UK and started some six months before ours - has so far attracted 51 signatures.

The fact our petition is obviously a serious one with in excess of 200 signatures means that the Government is committed to responding to it when it closes on September 3.

A banner for use on websites for linking through the petition has been produced by Scot-PEP at
http://deid.net/ScotPEP/

Sites and forums already featuring the petition include
http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/camp.htm
http://www.escort-england.com/ and its related sites in Scotland and Wales,
http://www.saafe.info/ and
http://psldirectory.proboards70.com/index.cgi alongside a range of Yahoo groups.

Pledges to publicise the petition within the Green Party have also been received and emails sent both to the Royal College of Nursing and the National Association of Probation Officers (who are both pro-decrim), as well as the Liberal Democrats, the ECP and other bodies within UKNSWP.

Over 1,000 escort profiles have been surveyed on the
http://www.adultwork.com/Home.asp site and recorded in databases for further publicity later.

Talks are progressing with Scot-PEP on whether to start a Scottish Parliament ePetition in tandem, the Swedes having recently promoted their policy there.

The six-month petition is timed to coincide with the UK Home Office’s “Review of Demand” for prostitution - widely expected to prefer the Swedish regime - and its immediate aftermath.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/sexworkers/





UK resident or ex-pat? Please sign + help publicise the online petition at:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/sexworkers/





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Die Damen des Frauen-Vereins wollen die Verhältnisse in der Prostitution erkunden


The Telegraph: The Women's Institute ladies off in search of prostitutes


For years they have contented themselves with needlepoint and jam-making, but recently two members of Hampshire's Women's Institute (WI) added a rather more risqué activity to their lives - kerb crawling [Straßenstrich].

Jean Johnson and Shirley Landells have been prowling the streets of Southampton as part of a study into the dangers of prostitution, and yesterday they took their research to another level [den wir bei SEXWORKER.AT schon gegangen sind].

The pensioners began a global fact-finding mission which will see them tour the red light district of Amsterdam and visit a "bunny ranch" in America dubbed "the best little whorehouse in the western world".

After that, they will head across to New Zealand to learn how girls there run their own mini-brothels.

Mrs Johnson, 62, and Mrs Landells, 73, aim to talk to prostitutes to see how the profession operates.

When they return they will brief WI members on their findings and submit them as part of a campaign to legalise prostitution and provide greater protection for working girls.

Mrs Johnson, a housewife from the leafy village of Four Marks, Hants, admitted that she expected the trip to be "quite an eye-opener". She added: "I'm prepared to be very shocked by what I see."

Mrs Landells, who joined the WI 40 years ago, said: "I joined up to get involved with jam-making and craftwork and never thought I would ever be doing anything like this.

"It's an issue that nobody seems to talk about - certainly nobody in the WI - but it's so important that we look out for the health and safety of these girls.

"I really am the least likely person to be visiting brothels - I'm very conventional I suppose. I imagine I may well be quite upset about things I see.

"I don't think it will be an easy trip but I think prostitution will always exist and someone has to stick their head above the parapet and confront these issues - I just didn't think it would be me." It was October last year when Mrs Johnson proposed that Hampshire WI should launch a campaign to legalise council-run brothels.

More than 200 groups across the county, containing 7,000 members, backed the motion and their campaign has been gathering momentum.

At their spring conference this week, Mrs Johnson, of Holybourne WI near Alton, announced her plans to travel the world with Mrs Landells, a widow and member of Cheriton WI near Winchester.

She said: "We're going to Amsterdam to see the red light district and talk to brothel owners and hopefully some girls and we're then off to Nevada where they have a bunny ranch. Neither of us have ever been to a brothel before or the red light district or spoken to brothel owners or prostitutes so it will be quite an eye-opener."

Mrs Johnson, whose 64-year-old husband Tony is a retired airline pilot, added: "Shirley and I recently went kerb crawling in the most horrendous areas of Southampton and we saw some girls on the street and it was heartbreaking.

"Surely it's better to know these women are safe? These girls deserve help and the most important things are their safety and giving them access to health care."

Their campaign has sparked lively debate, gaining support from Portsmouth's Catholic bishop. However, it has been condemned by Sarah McCarthy-Fry, the Labour MP for Portsmouth North.

She said: "I think it's totally the wrong message. If we just say it's always gone on and it always will so let's make it legal, that's copping out.

"We need to be much more robust about people trafficking and there are discussions going on at the moment about that."

telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/04/nprosi104.xml





"To suppress free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong."

-- Betty Friedan





Foto vom Besuch der Sexworker am Arbeitsplatz
in der lizensierten Bunny Ranch, Nevada:
http://sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=40467#40467





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Studie über Sklaverei der Gegenwart


Contemporary slavery in the UK

Gary Craig e.a.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation

http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/2 ... ery-UK.pdf
(79 Seiten)

Es ist ein Review. D.h. er ist genau so gut wie seine Quellen, die er zusammensammelt und die sind in Zeiten allgemeiner Menschenhandels-Hybris und EU-Migrationsbekämpfung möglicherweise gefärbt.

Eine ökonomische Theorie zur Sexarbeit mit und ohne Ausbeutung findet sich hier:
viewtopic.php?p=19404#19404





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Schottland: Straßenprostitutionsverbot

Die schlimmsten Befürchtungen haben sich durch aktuelle Zahlen der Hilfsorganisation bestätigt: In den Untergrund gedrängte Frauen sind einer größeren Gefahr ausgeliefert.


Prostitution: 'Worst fears are now realised after new laws'



THOSE who supported the prostitution laws designed to take prostitutes off the streets can't say they weren't warned.
Judging by statistics released by the Edinburgh prostitute support group Scotpep, the worst fears of those who said prohibition would put the women in greater danger have been fully realised.

A doubling of the number of attacks since streetwalking was effectively outlawed should be a matter of extreme concern, but the political mood swing away from tolerance means there is little chance of a return to the previous position, where the trade was allowed to continue in controlled zones away from residential districts.

Of course, the perpetrators of violence should be the first to be condemned, and there is no excuse for attacks on vulnerable women, no matter how they earn their living. But the fact remains that the new laws have put these women in greater danger than was previously the case.

Admittedly there are fewer women on the streets, but there is no evidence the numbers involved in prostitution have dropped and instead they are finding other clandestine ways to meet with clients. This should be no surprise, because the new regulations have done nothing to tackle the broader reasons for women selling themselves in this way – usually drug or alcohol addiction.

According to Scotpep, those who continue to work outdoors are more vulnerable to attack from the remaining customers, as the more "respectable" men have effectively been forced away, leaving the even more unsavoury individuals who don't ca
re if they are prosecuted for kerb-crawling.

So much is made of the Swedish example, where buying sex was made illegal years ago, but it seems the vice trade is experiencing a resurgence. But a proper comparison with Sweden must include all social factors and not just anti-prostitution laws. Levels of drug addiction are far lower than here and the number of active prostitutes is accordingly low. Further, Swedes down on their luck also have a generous welfare safety net, which means fewer women are driven by economic necessity to go on The Game.

The kerb-crawling laws have done nothing to alter the desire of some men to buy sex and the majority who do not inflict violence, however sad or seedy, have been turned from otherwise law-abiding men into potential criminals.

Both groups of people are in need of help, not the force of criminal law or the condemnation of extremists.


The full article contains 413 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
Last Updated: 15 April 2008 8:40 AM
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Prosti ... 3980915.jp

[Marc of Frankfurt]

New pilot poster campaign to make sex buyers think again


A new poster campaign to raise awareness of the exploitation and trafficking of some women among men who pay for sex was launched today by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker, as part of the Government's six month review into tackling the demand for prostitution.

The posters are being piloted in men's toilets in pubs and clubs in Westminster and Nottingham. They will be supported by online advertising, with additional advice on the UK Human Trafficking Centre's "Blue Blindfold" website.







Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said:

"Trafficking is a vile and evil trade and sex buyers must be made to think twice about the consequences of their actions. These women are being treated as commodities and are sold, controlled and exploited by others for a profit. This is totally unacceptable.

"The advertising campaign we are launching today should help draw attention to the plight these women face and make men think again about what they are doing."

A 2007 research report by the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit revealed the peak age for buying sex is 34, with men aged 20-40 counting for the majority. Most are employed, around half are in a relationship and over a fifth have children.

A key part of the UK Action Plan on Tackling Human Trafficking is to undertake publicity and awareness-raising to reduce demand in the UK. A six month review looking at what more the Government can do to tackle the demand for prostitution began in January. The evaluation of the pilot marketing campaign will feed into the overall results of this review.



Notes to Editors:

1. Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people, by means of threat, use of force, abuse or other forms of coercion, for the purposes of specified exploitation.

[Anm.: Problem des sog. UN "Palermo Protokolls" von 2000:
viewtopic.php?p=29294#29294 ]

2. The posters being launched in Nottingham and Westminster today can be seen at
http://www.crimereduction.homeoffice.go ... ing003.htm .
The posters will run from 5 May until 30 May. The online advertisements will run until 27 June.

2. More information about the UK Human Trafficking Centre's Blue Blindfold campaign can be found at
http://www.blueblindfold.co.uk

3. A copy of the 2007 Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit research report "It's like going to the Supermarket": Men who buy sex in East London can be found at:
http://www.cwasu.org/filedown.asp?file= ... reen-1.pdf

4. The Government launched a six month review in January 2008 to look at what more could be done to tackle the demand for prostitution. This began with a Ministerial visit to Sweden to explore the impact that legislation which criminalises paying for sex has had. A visit to the Netherlands is being scheduled for later this year to look at their approach to the issue. The results of this and the pilot poster campaign will feed into the final decisions of the review process.


Home Office (National)
http://7thspace.com/headlines/280350/ne ... again.html

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Werbung Sexwork



Urteil in England:


The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recognizes that
the image used to advertise a lap dance club (in this case)

• "was no more explicit than those
  used in other ads for shower gels or lingerie"

Why can't we stop the spread of degrading adverts for sex?

The number of strip clubs has doubled in the last four years, an unforeseen byproduct of liberal licensing laws

o Catherine Bennett
o The Observer,
o Sunday June 1 2008
o Article history

A while back, the line: 'What have the Romans ever done for us?', nicked from Life of Brian, was a gag much repeated by Blairite grandees irritated by an electorate that never seemed properly cognizant of their benevolence. How much sharper than a serpent's tooth was its ingratitude for Sure Start. And the minimum wage. Not to mention taking on Andrew Gilligan.

But they're right. Surveying Blair's promised land, it's all too easy to overlook reforms so familiar that they now seem no less than oak trees, a venerable and unchanging part of the British landscape. Ministers for Women, for example. How often did you come across one of those pre-1997? Ditto strippers. With typical 'What have the Romans ...' mean-spiritedness, we rarely credit New Labour with the extraordinary flowering of strip joints or, as they prefer to be called, gentlemen's table-dancing establishments, even though this advance has lifted so many deserving young women out of poverty.

Tessa Jowell in particular has been too modest to advertise her own, crucial contribution, as the perpetrator [Gesetzesübertreter] of the Licensing Act 2003, in placing strip clubs in the same, easily licensed category as cafes and karaoke bars (rumour has it that one popular gentlemen's lap-dancing club, the Whited Sepulchre, is actually named after her). But perhaps she regrets her act's continued failure to reconcile market and family values, with no sign in any of the new clubs of, even, healthy snacks for the kids or somewhere for mum to practise her pole dancing. She should not beat herself up about it. Even Rome's mighty Crassus fell to the Parthians.

Besides, ineffectual though they usually are, regular protests and petitions against the opening of yet more lap-dancing clubs (their number having doubled since 2004) confirm that Jowell probably went as far as she could at the time, with her challenge to old-style feminists.

Even in today's go-ahead London, a poster for a new For Your Eyes Only table-dancing club, which promises both 'exclusive style' and 'fully nude and topless dancing', recently attracted 28 complaints from the public, most of them according to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) objecting that 'the ad was offensive and unsuitable for display where it could be seen by children'.

I confess I had not noticed when I made my complaint about this poster, a gigantic, soft porn-style image featuring a heap of predominantly naked women, that this collective come-on was glued to a hoarding opposite a sixth-form college. In fact, watching the traffic lights, I might not have noticed it all had it not been for a 10-year-old in the car who was about to receive an early introduction to that very New Labour career option, undressing in front of drunken strangers. Apparently you can earn as much as £10 (topless) or £20 ('full nude in booth') a dance these days, although this must be set against the fees strippers pay the clubs for the privilege of stripping.

Emailing a complaint to the ASA is so rewarding that I would recommend it to anyone. A handy template pops up and no sooner have you posted off a short rant about, say, the commodification of women in a gigantic advertisement for a strip club than an acknowledgement pings back followed, in this case, by a series of very civil letters assuring the complainant how seriously her protest was being taken. Even if, when the last letter arrived last week, it was dismissed with a final: 'I am sorry that this decision will disappoint you.'

Actually, what most disappoints me is not, I think, that the ASA has endorsed the graphic promotion in a public place of women's sexual services, but the eccentric process whereby it appears to have reached this opinion. While the substance of 28 complaints against the ad is summarised (in an adjudication which will be published this week) in two brief sentences, ASA-style dialectic devotes two reverential paragraphs to FYEO's largely irrelevant response. It reports - having presumably been dazzled by this rhetorical dart - that the people from FYEO 'understood that the nature of their business could be controversial and sometimes prejudice the way people reacted to their advertising'. It is a defence which could certainly lighten the ASA's case load. How do you prove you're not prejudiced? Indeed, given the difficulty of proving a negative, it might remove the need for the ASA altogether.

Moreover, the ASA continued, presenting a piece of passionate strip-club ratiocination that evidently precluded counter-argument, 'FYEO said the image used was no more explicit than those used in other ads for shower gels or lingerie'. And although many of us might be unfamiliar with any high street lingerie and shower gel ads depicting, in similar style, a wriggling heap of strippers, that is not to deny how degrading such objectification might not be, in practice, to a young and impressionable shower gel or, for that matter, an averagely ambitious support bra.

Admittedly, the ASA did make some attempt to think for itself: 'We noted that the women were semi-naked and their poses might be seen as sexually suggestive.' But that does not mean the image breached clause 5.3 (decency) of the advertising code. It's all relative, after all: one person's indecency is Tessa Jowell's free-style karaoke. 'We considered that, in the context of an ad for a table-dancing club, the image was unlikely to be seen as unduly explicit or overly provocative.'

Useful, anyway, to know how the regulators' minds work. None of us likes violence. But in the context of an ad for a violent film, or game, a violent image might not be seen as unduly explicit, might it? The same goes for racism. In the context of some sort of good-natured racial thingy. However, in its annual report last month, the ASA explains that it upheld complaints of racism against a Cadbury chewing gum commercial it did not consider offensive because a significant minority believed it was. The ASA's broadcasting code states, among other things, that 'ads must not prejudice respect for human dignity'.

The ASA's belief that there is, however, respect for human dignity in the magnified illustration of the almost-naked women you might hope to find - sans pants - in your local, New Labour strip joint will surely comfort the architects of the Licensing Act 2003. Particularly given the escalating complaints from residents, and councils, who are discovering that the smallest, quietest sex shop is subject to more stringent licensing arrangements. One group of MPs is agitating for the clubs to be reclassified as 'sex encounter establishments'.

A suspicion that on this occasion organised opposition cannot be dismissed as a lesbian plot may account for a new guild of strip joints, calling itself the Lap Dancing Association. It, too, wants lap-dancing reclassified, but as 'adult entertainment'. You know: the kind of adult entertainment whose graphic advertisement would not, in a final adjudication by the ASA, be considered 'unsuitable to be seen by children'.

Original:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/j ... ing.gender

www.fyeo.co.uk

www.asa.org.uk





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Eine Politikerin, die sich für Sexwork stark macht.

Auch wenn sie die Route "Legalisierung" statt der Option "Entkriminalisierung" verfolgt.


http://www.lynnejones.org.uk/prostitution.htm





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Prostitution is never going to go away

THERE are many good reasons for sending people to prison in this country, but supplying sexual services ought not to be one of them. Just the other day a 25-year-old woman was jailed for four months and fined €900 at Kilkenny District Court after she pleaded guilty to managing and operating a brothel in Kilkenny city. The woman is Jing Jing Wang, she is Chinese and a former student nurse, but that’s neither here nor there.

Last year a 28-year-old Kildare woman named Deena Edridge was jailed for one year by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for managing a city centre brothel. These are just two examples, two cases that received a fair bit of publicity, and there are others. And will be others - unless the law on prostitution in this country is changed.

At a time when communities up and own the country badly require a stronger garda presence on the streets, there is even a team of garda investigators in Dublin set up to combat vice. They operate under the codename Operation Quest. I think this is a squandering of resources, and reflects a 19th century view of sex and prostitution.

The very idea of a vice squad - when vice is under-stood solely in terms of sex --belongs to the Victorian era, and like that era should now be a part of history. Prosecuting people for supplying sexual services, apart from the amount of garda and court time is takes up, serves in the end only to bring the law itself into disrepute.

Vice is sometimes defined as “grossly immoral conduct”, and it is (almost) a purely Irish tradition to equate immorality with sex. On the other hand, the immorality of shady or corrupt business deals, or of the huge profits made from land speculation, or of tax evasion are vices that largely go unpunished in this country.

Friday, May 16, 2008
http://www.waterford-news.com/news/stor ... cwidojkfau

[Marc of Frankfurt]

DOES SWEDEN HAVE ANSWER TO OUR PROSTITUTION PROBLEMS?

3 readers have commented on this story. Click here to read their views.


In his role as a Home Office Minister, Gedling MP Vernon Coaker this week visited Sweden to see how their policies on prostitution could impact on the UK. This is what he found...

Sex buyers always have a choice but those selling it often don't.

Many are exploited and find themselves in situations they can't escape. That is why I am leading a government review to protect those vulnerable individuals.

Few would disagree that we need to do more to tackle the demands for prostitution, in order to end exploitation and abuse.

We have made great progress to tackle the demand for on-street prostitution, now it's time to do something to tackle what is happening off-street.

My trip to Sweden, with other ministers, officials and senior police officers, kick starts this six-month review of demand, looking into what more the government can do.

Sweden made paying for sex illegal in 1999 and many people support the Swedish approach as the best way to reduce demand.

I wanted to see for myself how this legislation has worked and during the visit I have spoken to my Swedish ministerial colleagues as well as practitioners from the police and health services about their experiences.

But I also had the opportunity to speak to those who sell sex to find out what impact the law has had on them.

What is clear from speaking to all of these different groups is that Sweden has made progress but still has a long way to go and serious issues to address.

I am confident however that we have learnt a lot from this visit and no doubt we will continue to do so.

The review will help move this crucial debate forward and ensure we in the UK are doing all we can to tackle demand.

Over the next six months I will, with other ministers, also visit the Netherlands and gather evidence from other countries about their often quite different approaches to this issue.

I will also speak to those working on this matter in the UK to ensure that the solutions we find are practical and workable. We want to hear from and learn from all of the different approaches.

Prostitution often causes nuisance and involves exploitation, particularly through drugs and trafficking. Whatever our views on the right policies to pursue, no-one would disagree with objectives which include greater safety, more protection and an end to exploitation.

The debate is how we achieve this, a debate in which we all need to engage.





Reader comments


It is good that you wander Europe looking for solutions to this "problem," Vernon, though it may have saved the taxpayers a fair bit of dosh if you'd simply availed yourself of a copy of Resolution 1579 of the Council of Europe (Prostitution - what stannce to take?) published last October, where you would have seen that Europe has done the job already and a lot more thoroughly (also partly paid for by the UK taxpayer). Academic studies show Sweden has never had many prostitutes per head of population cf the UK, so why on earth it's supposedly the font of all knowledge on the subject is hard to say. Furthermore it has nothing even remotely like the scale of our drugs problem. A Downing Street petition I created last March has just got its 500th signature. It rejects Sweden and calls for decriminalisation in line with RCN and NAPO policy, but as you're currently telling punters in Nottingham and Westminster that a brothel visit means they'll "Walk in a punter, walk out a rapist" it's probably best if you spend your time discovering existing laws rather than trying to make new ones. Apart from the legal point that nobody becomes a rapist unless they have reason to believe the prostitute is coerced, Pentameter 1 (first national search by 55 UK forces) found only 88 victims of trafficking so even if Pentmater 2 finds twice as many, it's still only one third of one percent of the 80,000 persons involved in prostitution according to that ill-researched Paying the Price nonsense. Still, we can all understand why a man like yourself might wish to visit the bordellos of this world prior to spending your time dictating to adults who they should and shouldn't have sex with and on what basis.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/sexworkers/
Stephen Paterson, North Wales

I think the best solution would be to have licensed brothels like other countries. In my opinion it can then be policed correctly and the girls would feel a lot safer in that environment. Its how you tackle employment which is going to help with trafficking. My experiences from visiting countries with relaxed laws is that all under one roof the girls are happier and a lot safer.
Jonny, Sneinton

Mr Coaker, your opinions are always valuable to all, but is an interest in foreign attitudes to prostitution really a viable pastime. Notts at the moment has a very bad reputation, none of which is due to sex workers. A reaction to maybe 200 to 300 people (albeit ones' who deserve care) is a little hard to comprehend under the current climate of guns, drugs, knives and general depraved street violence. While it is laudable that you are interested in such issues, I feel that it is becoming to a point where you are falling victim to the same perils. Concerned Voter.
dav, notts

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displ ... eId=133942





UK Review of Demand und Antworten der Sexarbeiter:

viewtopic.php?p=35867#35867





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

2 Fälle

Sexarbeit ist in UK erlaubt.
Aber Betriebe/Bordelle sind grundsätzlich nicht erlaubt.
Eine künstlich geschaffene Grauzone oder Prostitutionsfalle.


Suspected brothel closed down

POLICE have shut down a suspected brothel near the centre of a North-East market town.

Officers who called at the end terraced house in High Bondgate, Bishop Auckland, on June 6, took away three people for questioning.

One of the trio, a 44-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of living off immoral earnings and bailed to return to Bishop Auckland police station on July 2.

Detectives also interviewed a 27-year-old Thai woman they found in an upstairs room with a second man.

She was deported the following day, while the man with her was released without any action being taken.

Durham Police said yesterday that officers who had called at the house were following up information gathered through a long-running nationwide investigation.

Neighbours said they believed a family lived in part of the house. One said: "A couple with children live at the front and the Thai girl was at the back.

"We have seen other Thai girls over the past year or so and men coming and going all the time. It was common knowledge what was going on."

3:24am Thursday 19th June 2008
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/t ... d_down.php





Brothel couple sent to prison


Fotos:
Wendy Hamlet being arrested last June.
Neil Hamlet – Six-month sentence.

A HUSBAND and wife who ran a brothel at a terraced house in Bridlington have been jailed for six months.

Neil Hamlet, 43, and his wife Wendy, 37, were sentenced on Monday at York Crown Court after admitting to keeping a brothel for prostitution at 35 Tennyson Avenue from December 2006 to February 2007.

They also admitted managing a brothel at 6 Rothbury Street, Scarborough, between June 2006 and June 2007.

Dr Tina Dempster, prosecuting, said three undercover operations were carried out at the premises in Scarborough, which were recorded.

Following the investigations, 22 officers swooped on the house in Scarborough on June 21 last year and found various paraphernalia associated with running a business in the sex industry plus diaries and a rota.

Dr Dempster said: "The girls were self-employed. They were charging £60 for half an hour.

"The defendants took £25 [42 %] leaving the working woman with £35. They provided effectively the premises.

"There were staff rules pinned up on the reception desk.

"It's fair to say it doesn't seem there was anything particularly fixed about the number of girls. They would come and go as they pleased."

The pair were not in the premises at the time of the search but arrived shortly after the police.

When interviewed they both admitted to running the business although Wendy Hamlet claimed she had taken on a much lesser role than her husband.

On June 7 last year Wendy Hamlet contacted the police to inquire as to whether it was lawful to conduct an escort business.

Dr Dempster said: "It was quite a difficult telephone conversation for the officer because he was aware there was an ongoing police investigation."

Both of them denied they had made any particular profit from the business but the court found them in receipt of a "reasonable amount of money".

Christopher Dunn, mitigating for Neil Hamlet, said he was "not an unintelligent man" and the case lacked a number of "aggravating features"

He said: "There hadn't been any type of offending like this in the past and there hadn't been any since."

Anne Munday, in mitigition for Wendy Hamlet, said: "At the outset this couple set out with good intentions.

"They were both on benefits at the time and were hoping to be able to set up a business to get them off dependency of the state.

"Their choice of business was highly inappropriate.

"As far as Wendy is concerned she did go about that business in an open a manner as she was able to. She made the police aware of their activities.

"The local tax office was informed and their income was declared.

"She was under what is now obviously the false impression that the business was being tolerated in the local area."

She had been left with a "considerable amount of debt" from past relationships which she had been trying to pay off herself and the couple were now in debt to the tune of £20,000.

They were also ordered to forfeit £427.50 each under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Mit Bildern:
http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/n ... 4196435.jp





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