11-17-2020, 08:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2020, 08:04 AM by Real Punter.)
The second national lockdown is going to push sex workers "even deeper into crisis", according to a campaign group.
The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has called for state support for workers in the coronavirus pandemic.
It said people were having to choose between risking their health by working or seeing their family go hungry.
Cari - not her real name - from the ECP said the new restrictions made it "more urgent that the government provide the emergency payments we are demanding".
She said the government needed to address "sex workers' illegal status that prevents women claiming the entitlements available to other workers".
About 80% of sex workers were single mothers operating in order to take care of their children, she estimated.
Former sex worker Cari, from the Bristol area, said while a lot of women had stopped working because of safety concerns, some had continued as they did not have access to any financial aid.
"Those who have to work are being very careful with clients. It is very, very difficult. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't," she said.
See more of this story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-54780027
The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has called for state support for workers in the coronavirus pandemic.
It said people were having to choose between risking their health by working or seeing their family go hungry.
Cari - not her real name - from the ECP said the new restrictions made it "more urgent that the government provide the emergency payments we are demanding".
She said the government needed to address "sex workers' illegal status that prevents women claiming the entitlements available to other workers".
About 80% of sex workers were single mothers operating in order to take care of their children, she estimated.
Former sex worker Cari, from the Bristol area, said while a lot of women had stopped working because of safety concerns, some had continued as they did not have access to any financial aid.
"Those who have to work are being very careful with clients. It is very, very difficult. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't," she said.
See more of this story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-54780027
