On Wednesday 9th of December, Dame Diana Johnson introduced a Private Members Bill called “The Sexual Exploitation” bill. Ostensibly it’s to protect “vulnerable women and girls”, but it’s actually an attempt to introduce The Nordic Model of Sex Work to UK. If you’re not familiar with that term, The Nordic Model is a law which, …
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The self-styled “All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostituion” (which is actually a bunch of anti-sex work puritanically-minded MPs) have called for a Westminster Hall Debate on the 4th of July at 2:30pm to try to outlaw websites which “encourage exploitation and trafficking”. See https://www.facebook.com/events/604646959904003/ What this will actually do is to make life MORE dangerous …
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Below is a letter written to our MP in respect of the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (IDEVASW) * * * * * Dear Stephen Morgan MP, If you were told that at least 70,000 women, men and trans-people in the UK were being forced to work in dangerous conditions and were …
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Women and Equalities Committee says women should not be forced to wear high heels at work Last year we wrote blog post on the High Heels Petition which was started after a woman named Nicola Thorp was sent home from her job for refusing to wear “2 inch to 4 heels”. There was an outcry …
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Following our recent post on the Government’s ridiculous Age Verification policy for adult websites and despite clearly expressed and comprehensive objections from legal experts and adult content producers and security experts, they are ploughing ahead regardless. Unfortunately the situation has now got even worse as the Government wants the British Board of Film Classification to …
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Age Verification for Adult Websites in the Digital Economy Bill The UK Government has brought forward plans to require adult websites in the UK to install Age Verification systems to “protect children” from being exposed to adult material. [bctt tweet=”Write to your MP urgently at http://www.writetothem.com to object to Government censorship RT”] UPDATE – The …
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Despite passing an anti-prostitution law in 2014, nobody has been prosecuted in Ireland In December 2014, the Northern Ireland Assembly passed a law, ostensibly to help prevent Human Trafficking, which included a provision (the so-called Nordic Model) making it a criminal offence to pay for sex, even if the participants were both consenting adults and …
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Are Sexual Risk Orders a Threat to BDSM? As you may have seen in recent news, a man named John O’Neill who was recently acquitted of rape by a jury in a trial in York was subsequently served with a so-called Sexual Risk Order after the Judge said that, despite the acquittal, he considered Mr …
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Republicans claim Pornography is a Public Health Crisis Following the recent tragic events in America with the shootings of black men and the sniper attacks on Dallas Police, the American Republican Party have adopted a new draft platform for their campaigning. Is it to declare that the prevalence of guns in the USA is a …
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