Elly Arrow is a radfem blogger who lives in Germany where prostitution is legalised. She sees the terrible harm done to women by this outdated, sexist institution and recently participated some research into homicide rates in prostitution.
Be warned – it’s worse than you thought.
FOLLOW ELLY’S WORK
Twitter: @EllyArrow
OTHER KEY ORGANISATIONS
- SPACE International – international network of sex trade survivors
- CEASE, the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation
- YOU MY SISTER, new survivors’ Exit support group with online mental health support:
- Email: i@youmysister.org.uk
- WebSite: www.youmysister.org.uk
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/YouMySister
LINKS REFERENCED DURING OBJECTINAR!
- Study by exited woman Andrea Heinz about the spectrum of choice and supporting all women in the sex trade
- Paradise-mega-brothel pimp admits you cannot run brothels without organized crime:
- Guardian (Unfortunately there is a paywall, but this article tells most of it in English )
- Sex Industry Kills – a wiki about sex trade homicides around the world
- Health & Well-Being in the German Sex Trade (one chapter focusses on prostituted women)
ELLY’S FUND RAISER
to support prostituted women destitute because of Covid Wire money to:
ALARM Gegen Sexkauf und Menschenhandel e.V. (Against sex-buying and people trafficking) IBAN: DE10 5135 0025 0205 0583 37 BIC: SKGIDE5FXXX (Sparkasse Gießen) MUST include the keyword: “ELLA”
BEFORE YOU SPEAK, THINK. BEFORE YOU THINK, READ
Many people express views on prostitution knowing nothing about it. Here are some good books to help you inform yourself.
Iceberg Slim ‘Pimp, the story of my life’ 1967 Barry K. ‘The Prostitution of Sexuality – the global exploitation of women’1995
- Jeffreys S . ‘The Idea of Prostitution’ 1997
- Brown, L. ‘Sex Slaves, the trafficking of women in Asia’ 2000
- Gupta, R. ‘Enslaved, the new British slavery’ 2007, p247ff
- Pimpin’ Ken, ‘Pimpology, the 48 laws of the game’ 2007
- Forsyth, S. ‘Slave Girl – sold into sex slavery’ 2009
- Wilson, D. ‘A history of British serial killing’ 2009 (chapter 7)
- Malarek, V. ‘The Johns – sex for sale and the men who buy it’ 2009
- Malarek, V. ‘The Natashas, slavery rape and murder in the global sex trade’ 2011
- Hayes, S. ‘Trafficked, my story’ 2012 Pai, ‘Invisible – Britain’s Migrant Sex Workers’ 2013
- Hollington Kris ‘Unthinkable – the shocking scandal of the UK sex traffickers 2013
- Raymond, J. ‘Not a choice, not a job’ 2013
- Moran, R. ‘Paid For – my journey through prostitution’ 2015
- Tankard Reist & Norma (eds) ‘Prostitution Narratives, stories of survival in the sex trade’ 2016 Banyard, K ‘Pimp State’ 2016 Haggstrom, S. ‘Shadow’s Law’ 2016
- Bindel, J. ‘ The Pimping of Prostitution- abolishing the sex work myth’ 2017
- Rubenhold, H. ‘The Five – women killed by ‘Jack the Ripper” 2019