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Bradford

by Amanda May 27, 2010

More daughters, sisters, girlfriends, wives and mothers taken before their time. These girls were a target, not just because they were prostitutes, but specifically because they were street girls. Any self respecting psychopath knows that if you want to go on a killing spree, you look amongst society’s lost folk for victims. If you’re looking [...]

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Why men use prostitutes

by Amanda January 16, 2010

The answer (that is) according to Julie Bindel. Before I start can I just say that I don’t like the word “use” in that context. Visit is much better, but of course ‘visit’ doesn’t have the nasty connotations that ‘use’ does, so we won’t see Julie using it anytime soon. Julie wrote another column for [...]

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Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic

by Amanda October 20, 2009

Thank you Nick Davies. Taken from The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/trafficking-numbers-women-exaggerated There is something familiar about the tide of misinformation which has swept through the subject of sex trafficking in the UK: it flows through exactly the same channels as the now notorious torrent about Saddam Hussein’s weapons. In the story of UK sex trafficking, the conclusions [...]

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