Letter: ‘Sex workers’ are victims

4:35pm Wednesday 1st August 2012 in Opinion

They call them ''sex workers''. In reality, these people are victims. No one would do that job unless they were desperate.

They need help and advice, whether that is to get off drugs, or to sort out their finances, or whatever.

Remember the five prostitutes who were murdered? That caused the authorities to DO something positive about the problem. Most if not all got their life back on track.

Many are called (via website).

Comments(12)

mavrick says...
6:35pm Wed 1 Aug 12

It is high time we grasped the nettle on this problem, Just what the answer is I don't know however I am sure the girls involved would tell us, What is not needed is the moralist's spouting their poisonous bile. There has to be a better way to manage this type of problem.

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AndyW says...
1:23pm Thu 2 Aug 12

You are right for a certain percentage of 'sex workers', however there is also another percentage who do this work purely for the money and lifestyle it allows them to lead.

If this is their choice in life, who is anybody to say whether it's right or wrong?

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Ken Shuffles says...
2:41pm Fri 3 Aug 12

It's all very well stamping the word 'victim' and 'problem' on these workers but there still has to be Someone who is willing to roll up their sleeves and work with the desperate. It's not for us to judge who is more desperate.

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BritainfortheBritish says...
5:56pm Fri 3 Aug 12

Most are victims of their own idiocity as they got themselves hooked on drugs and now sell their bodies to maintain the druggie lifestyle.

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Ken Shuffles says...
11:43am Sat 4 Aug 12

All of us are victims of that. We invent an avenue of contentment and then go down the avenue and experience all the goods and bads of the avenue we have invented and chosen to go down. I don't know anyone who doesn't actually do that. Some people are hooked on being social workers and some are hooked on sex and some are hooked on drugs and some are hooked on god or a lifestyle of controlling someone else and some people are hooked on looking and appearing respectable in public.

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Ken Shuffles says...
11:45am Sat 4 Aug 12

Everyone is hooked on maintaining their chosen lifestyle avenue.

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Ken Shuffles says...
11:46am Sat 4 Aug 12

We are all victims of the same thing.

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Ken Shuffles says...
11:52am Sat 4 Aug 12

Some people are hooked on wanting.

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Ken Shuffles says...
11:55am Sat 4 Aug 12

The worst things in a womans life all begin with men.

menace
menstruation
menopause
mental illness

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Ken Shuffles says...
11:56am Sat 4 Aug 12

mentor

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Chico! says...
10:44pm Sat 4 Aug 12

Ken Shuffles wrote:
mentor
That doesn't make sense old bean.

You might as well add meningitis & mentioning spiders to your little list.

Back to pseuds corner with you!

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BritainfortheBritish says...
12:31pm Sun 5 Aug 12

Ken Shuffles wrote:
All of us are victims of that. We invent an avenue of contentment and then go down the avenue and experience all the goods and bads of the avenue we have invented and chosen to go down. I don't know anyone who doesn't actually do that. Some people are hooked on being social workers and some are hooked on sex and some are hooked on drugs and some are hooked on god or a lifestyle of controlling someone else and some people are hooked on looking and appearing respectable in public.
Not quite the same as being hooked on heroin etc and selling ones body is it .

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