Criminals often target sex workers and other 'hate crime' groups, before moving on to the wider public. Two of the most notorious serial killers Peter Sutcliffe and Gary Leon Ridgway initially murdered sex workers before targeting other women. So if we can get sex workers to report crimes, everyone gains.

If Rhoda Grant and Lord Morrow's Bills are implemented, sex workers will be subject to more harm and risk and will have less recourse to support and protection from the law than they do currently. These proposals are built on an ideological foundation rather than couched in research.

Talia Robertson, a first year student studying Politics, Psychology and Sociology argues in proposition. Anti-prostitution arguments are often couche...

A national pilot scheme to help protect sex workers from violent and abusive customers has been launched in the UK. Sex workers in some parts of th...