Written evidence submitted by Charlotte Rose

The Home Affairs Committee is launching an inquiry into the way prostitution is treated in legislation. In particular, the inquiry assesses whether the balance in the burden of criminality should shift to those who pay for sex rather than those who sell it.

This document is to state my reasons as to why your enquirer is damaging and dangerous to current sex workers in the UK

PLEASE SEE MY STATEMENTS IN BOLD

Inquiry: Prostitution

Home Affairs Committee

Terms of Reference

Written submissions are invited on the following issues:

Whether criminal sanction in relation to prostitution should continue to fall more heavily on those who sell sex, rather than those who buy it.

CRIMINALISING THE BUYING OF SEX NOT ONLY PENALISES CLIENTS WHO REGULARLY USE SEX WORKERS BUT CREATS MORE DANGERS AND POVERTY FOR SEX WORKERS.

• GOOD QUALITY CLIENTS WILL STOP SEEING SW DUE TO FEAR OF BEING ARRESTED CREATING COMPETITION BETWEEN SW
• RISK TAKING CLIENTS WILL BE THE ONLY REGULR USERS, YET CRIMINALISING WILL CREATE CONTROL TO THOSE CLIENTS GIVING THEM EASE TO BARTER / NEGOTIATE AND HAGGLE WITH MONEY RATES AND ALSO SERVICES AND SAFTEY
• THIS WILL ALSO PENALISE DISABLED CLIENTS WHO USE SEX WORKERS AS THEIR ONLY SOURCE OF SKIN ON SKIN, AND EMOTIONAL CONTACT
• SAFETY AND SEXUAL HEALTH WOULD BE JEOPARDISED DUE TO LACK OF CLIENTS

What the implications are for prostitution-related offences of the Crown Prosecution Service's recognition of prostitution as violence against women.

SEX WORKER ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO SEEK FUTURE EMPLOYMENT DUE TO BAD LAWS CREATING CRIMINALS RECORDS FOR SEX WORKERS

What impact the Modern Slavery Act 2015 has had to date on trafficking for purposes of prostitution, what further action is planned, and how effectively the impact is being measured.

BY INTRODUCING DECRIMINALISATION IT WOULD CREATE EMPOWERMENT TO THE WORKERS TO REPORT TRAFFICKING AND DANGERS TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES RATHER THAN JOW IT IS NOW, AS TRAFFICKED WORKERS LIVE IN FEAR FROM THERE PIMPS AND POLICE

Whether further measures are necessary, including legal reforms, to:

Assist those involved in prostitution to exit from it

SEX WORKERS WHO WANT TO LEAVE THE INDUSTRY SHOULD HAVE MORE OPTIONS OF SUPPORT GROUPS TO HELP WITH FURTHER EDUCATION AND FAMILY COMMITMENTS – THE PROBLEM IS WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND NOW HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD FOR PROSTITUTION THEY ARE MOST LIKELY TO NOT BE ABLE TO GET FUTRUE EMPLOYMENT DUE TO THE STIGMA THAT ALL SEX WORKERS ARE DRUGS, DRINK ADDICTS AND ASSOCIATED WITH CRIME

Increase the extent to which exploiters are held to account

ASL THE INDUSTRY FOR SUPPORT TO IDENTIFY EXPLOITERS AND REDUCE RISK RATHER THAN PUTTING LAWS IN PLACE THAT DAMAGE SEX WORKERS DAILY LIVES

Discourage demand which drives commercial sexual exploitation

SEX WORK WILL NEVER END, WE NEED TO SUPPORT THOSE WHO WANT TO LEAVE AND LEAVE THE ONES HAPPY ALONE. ITS NIEVE TO THINK THE GOVERNMENT CAN END SEX WORK, RATHER SUPPORT BOTH SIDES TO THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE FOR SAFETY OF ALL WORKERS

DECRIMINALISATION WILL GIVE SAFETY BACK TO ALL SEX WORKERS WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD

THE SWEDISH MODEL HAS ALREADY RPVED A FAILURE AS WEX WORKERS ARE RAPED ON A DAILY BASIS DUE TO LACK OF GOOD QUALITY CLIENTS AND FEAR OF NO EARNINGS

THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT FAULT AND WE NEED TO PROTECT SEX WORKERS RATHER THAN SUBJECTING THEM TO RAPE, ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION

NO BAD MEN JUST BAD LAWS!