Independent Ipswich Escorts

We all want to protect and support sex workers, especially those who are in danger, addicted or have no other options. We don’t want any pimps or traffickers. But there are many unclear things about this industry, like how to talk about it and how to keep people safe who sell sex. This is more important now that more people do it because they are desperate. Writing this was hard for me. It made me think about when I was a hostess in a strip club.

I liked it most of the time and I earned good money, but I also saw (some, not all) dancers with drug problems. I had to deal with creepy men, bad managers and people who judged me for how I paid my bills that year. It was funny that some of them were my dates and some were customers who insulted the strippers… and then asked for a dance. I don’t get why people look down on those who provide sex services, but not on those who use them. Why don’t people shame those who go to places like Holbeck and try to pay less to broken women? It’s not fair to lose opportunities or be looked down on because of your job or past.

There are still women working the streets of Ipswich years after the Steve Wright murders. This is despite targeting the Ipswich Steet workers with agencies and prosecution of the clients. Most of the sex trade moved off the streets into Ipswich brothels. Despite the off-street Ipswich escorts a few, up to nine at a time continue to work on the streets.

I chatted with Sarah from Decrim Now about the laws around sex work and why it's an issue at the moment. We cover the current position (which is partial criminalisation), the Nordic Model (which criminalises the client), and full decriminalisation (which is what sex workers and many big unions and charities are calling for).

As I mentioned in last week's show we would please encourage you to use this template to email your MP about it decrimnow.eaction.org.uk/nonordicmodel and if you have clout or belong to an organisation that does, please sign the open letter decrimnow.org.uk/open-letter-on-the-nordic-model/

With an amenedment to the unloved Police Bill in parliament, it could happen that the Nordic model is introduced to England. The Nordic model bans the purchase of sex, while 'decriminilising the escort' The Nordic model will also ban advertising sites. There is a fierce battle building up to fight this amendment, and hopfully amend the police bill to fully decriminilise the sexwork. Many celebrities are supporting the decriminilisation.

A newly-published open letter that calls for MPs to oppose the further criminalisation of sex work in the UK has received 150 signatures, including those of celebrities, activists, and human rights organisations (such as FKA twigs, Amnesty International, and Sisters Uncut), and figures across politics, the media, and academia.

Spearheaded by the UK campaign group Decrim Now, the letter takes aim at legislation that criminalises the purchase of sex — often known as “the Nordic Model” — warning that measures touted as solutions to sex trafficking and exploitation “will only exacerbate violence against women, including those who are being exploited”.

It also encourages politicians to take an evidence-based approach to the sex industry, and to engage with and listen to sex workers. This comes amid repeated attempts to criminalise paying for sex in the UK (including the recent Sexual Exploitation Bill put forward by Labour’s Diana Johnson, which Decrim Now links to the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill) despite evidence suggesting that the move is likely to prove ineffective, and may have harmful consequences.

“Evidence shows that the Nordic Model does nothing for the very groups it claims to protect,” the letter continues, citing a sharp increase in violence against sex workers after similar legislation was introduced in the Republic of Ireland in 2017. In 2018, the non-profit initiative Ugly Mugs Ireland reported that violent crime against sex workers went up 77 per cent after the ruling came into effect.

For 12 years I worked as an escort, I also did occasional phone & cam work. I varied between working full time and part time, but around half was full time and the other half part time.

I've been put off doing one of these because of how they usually go but I'm always banging on about people making assumptions about sex workers and accepting stereotypes about us so I might as well.

To be clear, this is a thread for people who want to ask questions, not for people who just want to make a point about sex work or sex workers.

Anyway, if anybody cares...ask away

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of laundering money for a man who ran a network of over 400 properties used by organised crime groups involved in prostitution, cannabis cultivation and illegal immigration. She was arrested in Ipswich. She is alleged to launder money for a Birmingham based man, who operated brothels, cannabis farms and to house illegal immigrants.