Category: Support

When a young girl enters the sex trade and spends a long time inside it, it can be hard to ever imagine a different life. The same goes for women who’ve spent the majority of their adult life inside prostitution. A 2019 report into prostitution and sex work in the UK discovered that ‘many find […]

“I survived prostitution by killing all my emotions. I murdered all expressions of pain, grief or confusion. I could not let in the reality of how I was being made sub-human, and was being bought and sold as easy as buying bread. I made myself into a robot, I painted on the Happy Hooker smile.” […]

If you’ve been raped or assaulted, it’s completely up to you whether or not you choose to report it to the police and/or pass on the information to the National Ugly Mugs scheme*. No-one else can or should make that decision for you, but we would be happy to help you to do either of […]

A pimp is someone who benefits financially from another person carrying out sexual acts for money. Sometimes this person is so close to us, for example a boyfriend or partner, that we don’t see what’s really happening in the relationship. They might keep telling us that they love us when actually we’re being used or […]

With more and more women entering the webcamming industry as a way of making money, competition has forced prices down leading to women sometimes doing increasingly degrading and dangerous acts online to maintain clients. Hope Barden’s body was discovered by her housemate at her Staffordshire flat in 2018 after she died from asphyxiation during an […]

A 2019 report into prostitution and sex work in the UK found that a substantial proportion of women who sell sex are doing it to get by financially. The report adds that ‘many find that the longer they sell sex, the harder it can be to leave completely’ and that many women ‘are subject to […]

In 2017, journalist Ellie Flynn investigated the ‘rent for sex’ trend, where landlords offer free rooms in exchange for sexual favours. She broadcast her findings in the BBC Documentary ‘Rent for sex: Ellie undercover’. Since that time, more and more stories have come to light of women keeping a roof over their heads in exchange […]

If you’ve come to our website, you might be selling sex to pay for drugs or alcohol. Or you might be using drugs or alcohol to numb emotional trauma linked to sexual exploitation. Sometimes it works both ways and can feel like a horrendous vicious circle. If you don’t already know about them, the Stoke […]