Debate over sex work laws as charities warn more women are entering industry The flow of women into the industry has added greater urgency to the debate on the laws surrounding sex work.

"This is often the last option that women will choose,"

Money can not buy consent, whether it is on the street or in a lux apartment.

#EndDemand

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#FiLiA supports a total ban on all forms of the sex trade and the exploitation of Women and Girls.

Watch this space for news of our campaign, in which you can get involved, and which will include tools to campaign locally on this issue! 🔥

#TimesUp #EndDemand #16Days #16DaysOfActivism

Good #read about #EndDemand #laws and the #NordicModel. 👠 #SW

Watch Valérie's testimony, recorded as part of FiLiA's Sex Trade Survivors Demanding Global Change Webinar:

📺 youtu.be/QtEaiqZhoO0

#ListenToSurvivors #EndDemand

#FiLiA2025 speaker news!

Valérie Pelletier, AKA Valérie Tender, survivor of sexual exploitation from #Montréal #Canada, radical feminist militant, singer, public speaker, conceptual artist and social entrepreneur will be at speaking at #FiLiA

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#AbolitionNow #EndDemand

It's #Saturday #FiLiA2025 speaker time!

HÉMA SIBI, #feminist activist, jurist specialised in international human rights’ law and Executive Director of www.cap-international.org/en/ will be speaking at #FiLiA this year

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#AbolitionNow #EndDemand

#186 The Sex Buyers' Secrets Revealed - FiLiA "When you normalize paid rape in prostitution, it becomes confusing to an entire culture, even for [the] government, to define what consent is and what isn't, what rape is and what isn't. "In this epi...

Listen to Melissa interviewed with Dr Inge Kleine on FiLiA #Podcast #186

#EndDemand #AbolitionNow

🎙️⬇️ podcast.filia.org.uk/1983918/epis...

It's #Saturday#FiLiA2025 speaker news time!

Melissa Farley, American clinical psychologist, researcher, radical feminist anti-pornography & anti-prostitution activist & founder & director of Prostitution Research & Education prostitutionresearch.com

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#EndDemand #AbolitionNow

#45 FiLiA meets: Huschke Mau - FiLiA Huschke Mau is a German woman who was in prostitution for a long time. She´s a writer, an activist and doing her PhD. Her biography in her own words:-           Was ...

Huschke is a co-founder of Sisters e.V. and Netzwerk Ella, organisations that support women leaving prostitution and she advocates for the #NordicModel

Listen to Huschke discuss her work on the #FiLiA #podcast

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#EndDemand #podcasting

It's #Saturday and time for #FiLiA2025 speaker news!

Huschke Mau #German author, activist, & survivor of prostitution, Huschke campaigns for the #abolition of the sex trade.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#AbolitionNow #EndDemand #ListenToSurvivors

As Ash Regan MSP rightly states in her press conference, ‘prostitution is modern slavery’ and the ‘Bill is backed up by international evidence’.

#AbolitionNow #NordicModel #EndDemand #ListenToSurvivors #EqualityModel #NotForSale #ModernSlavery #UnbuyableBill

Sex trafficker made £2.6m luring Chinese women into prostitution Jailed Jagpal Singh has been ordered to pay back £1 in a proceeds of crime case that heard he has no assets

'A sex trafficker who duped Chinese women into travelling to Scotland & forced them into prostitution made more than £2.5 million from crime, a court was told.'

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Come to #FiLiA2025 to hear why #abolition is the only answer

#MVAWG #EndDemand

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New York City Mayor Ranks His Town as Top Spot for 24/7 Strip Club By Taina Bien-Aimé and Sonia Ossorio

The commodification/objectification/sexualization of women, and men's purchase of sexual acts, is no laughing matter @NYCMayor. Uphold your stated commitments and #endDemand to prevent & fight against sexual exploitation in #NYC. @NOW-NYC @EqualityModelNY medium.com/@CATWIntl/ne...

Belgium pushes to make sex work safer but abuses still persist A law that was adopted in December last year allows sex workers in Belgium to sign employment contracts, granting them more labour rights like health insurance and paid leave. But even if Belgium has…

Headline: "Prostitution is inherently violent & is linked to sex trafficking." @france24.com. That #Belgium decriminalized pimping to profit from the prostitution of ♀ is NOT historic. Many Govs have legalized purchase of sexual acts & misogyny. @isalaasbl #endDemand f24.my/B8AO.BS

TUC Women’s Conference 2025: Why you should vote AGAINST Motions 8 and 9 | Nordic Model Now! Analysis of ASLEF and GMB's motions for full decrim at the TUC Women's Conference 2025 showing that they are misleading and misguided.

We urge #TUCWomen to vote against Motions 8 and 9; read #NordicModelNow on why here:

#ResistPersistDeliver #UnionsForWomen #TUCWomensConference#AbolitionNow #EndDemand

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Penthouse Magazine inspired strip club approved to open in Soho A number of people have expressed concerns about the new club's 300-person capacity.

‘During the meeting, councillors heard from objectors who expressed concerns... They argued the area was "saturated" with adult entertainment venues which are said to be attracting drug touts and pickpocketing gangs.’

#NotBuyingIt #EndDemand #EndExploitation

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Sister Salon objects to the Pussycat Club BLOG: Whats’ new Pussycat? We are not for sale! Read our blog on the licence proceedings and the issues at stake #NotBuyingIt #EndDemand #EnoughIsEnough 6 minute read Watch the full hearing I…

3️⃣ It is baffling that
@BrightonHoveCC
have spent £30 million on regenerating Valley Gardens to become a municipal space, only for the licencing team to declare it unchanged 🤦‍♂️

#NotBuyingIt #EndDemand #EnoughIsEnough

Read our objections in full ⬇️
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Lapdancing club allowed to stay open but sex offender former owner banned The Pussycat Club in Brighton can remain open for another year despite opposition from a women’s group.

1️⃣ It is concerning that @brighton-hove.gov.uk
feels confident that additional conditions will be respected by a Club that has previously failed to uphold them.

#NotBuyingIt #SistersSalon #EndDemand
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What’s new Pussycat? Sisters Salon attend the licence renewal hearing for the Pussycat Club, Brighton.

"When a grassroots women’s group has given the club more scrutiny than paid council officers, it feels like a safeguarding car-crash with women exposed to evidenced risk and preventable harms."

BLOG:
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@BellaSankey @BrightonHoveCC #NotBuyingIt #EndDemand

You can read our objections here:

"We believe SEVs are outdated and have no place in a community that seeks to respect women and girls and to end male violence against us."

#NotBuyingIt #EndDemand

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If you would like to watch proceedings please follow the link from 10am
#NotBuyingIt #EndDemand

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Brighton: Lap dance club to have licence reviewed The council has scheduled a licensing panel hearing before three councillors on 17 February.

🧵Councillors will decide if the PussyCat Strip Club can renew its licence

We are pleased to be representing
women across our city by raising their (&our) objections at today's hearing.

#Brighton #NotBuyingIt #EndDemand

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New research investigates misogyny and consent on escort online reviews Misogynistic reviews on a UK escort site raise serious concerns about the  privacy and safety of women in prostitution, a new study finds.

'Escort reviews include dehumanising phrases, such as comparing having sex with a woman in prostitution to shagging a dead fish.'

#misogyny #consent #AbolitionNow #EndDemand

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Sister Salon objects to the Pussy Cat Club In July this year (2024), The Pussy Cat Club Brighton applied to renew it’s SEV (Sexual Entertainment Venue) licence. Previously owned by a convicted sex offender Kenneth McGrath, the Pussy C…

Strip clubs are magnets for sexual predators & normalise the objectification & dehumanisation of all women.
They are outdated & have no place in a community that seeks to respect women & girls & to end male violence against us.

#NotBuyingIt #EndDemand

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Objectors dog Pussycat Club as owner looks to renew Brighton licence Councillors will decide whether a “sex entertainment venue” can renew its licence after 18 people sent objections to Brighton and

"Campaign group Sister Salon announced last June that it would object to the licence renewal"

And we did

Important to note there are record numbers of objections this year

See 🧵for our objections
#PussyCatClub #NotBuyingIt #EndDemand @WhiteRibbon_UK

www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/02/08/o...

Until there are no victims, I won't stop going after the buyers.

#enddemand
#endhumantrafficking

#16Days – Day 7: Women First – Prostitution as #MaleViolence

In this #blog, the Women First team explain why prostitution is #MVAWG and what we hope to do about it.

🔗 filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

#AbolitionNow #EndDemand #NoExcuse #365Days #16DaysofActivism #IDEVAW #EndVAWG #WomenAreNotForSale

#16Days – Day 7: Women First – Prostitution as #MaleViolence

In this #blog, the Women First team explain why prostitution is #MVAWG and what we hope to do about it.

🔗 filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

#AbolitionNow #EndDemand #NoExcuse #365Days #16DaysofActivism #IDEVAW #EndVAWG #WomenAreNotForSale

#121 Homeless Child, Sex Trade Victim, Inspiring Author: Meet Grizelda Grootboom - FiLiA Grizelda Grootboom from South Africa survived apartheid, homelessness and decades of sexual abuse. Now a famous author and survivor activist, Grizelda is interviewed by Luba Fein about her escape from...

#16Days: Day4 – Grizelda Grootboom #podcast

Grizelda survived apartheid, homelessness & sexual abuse. Now an author & survivor activist, she spoke to Luba Fein about her escape from prostitution.

🎙️ podcast.filia.org.uk/1983918/epis...

#IDEVAW
#365Days
#NoExcuse
#EndDemand
#AbolitionNow

#16Days: Day4 – Grizelda Grootboom #podcast

Grizelda survived apartheid, homelessness & sexual abuse. Now an author & survivor activist, she spoke to Luba Fein about her escape from prostitution.

🎙️ podcast.filia.org.uk/1983918/epis...

#IDEVAW
#365Days
#NoExcuse
#EndDemand
#AbolitionNow