I was at our women’s centre reading the Guardian editorial (8 April) when I took a call from a woman charged with brothel-keeping for working with a friend. I asked her how she got into prostitution. “A man came round to carve off the gas and I had to quiz if he could wait until I had heated my baby’s food. He was kind and offered to say I wasnt in so he couldn’t carve my gas. I started after that.It is a tragedy that our lives are stolen by poverty and that few of us can make “positive” choices approximately the work we do. Many of us recede into sex work after our benefits were carve and we tried other jobs – cleaning,caring, nursing – and couldn’t make ends meet. In many countries, and women are escaping the garment,food processing and other highly exploitative industries. Those who target the sex industry as uniquely degrading say nothing approximately the degradation mothers suffer seeing their children recede without food, warmth or shoes, and being imprisoned or deported after a police raid.
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Source: theguardian.com