Prostitute checked into our hotel!

Zombie fucking thread
jeeze I wish MNHQ would lock threads so idiots don't reawaken pointless threads like this

I dont mean to be unkind but maybe you should count yourself lucky that you are not in a situation where you are put in a position where you have to sell your body to strange man who you dont know and who could do anything to you.
How old was the sex worker? Did she look healthy or did she look like she had a terminal illness or disabiltiy.
Lots of women who are disabled and terminally ill are being kicked off benefits so that starmer can give those benefits to young healthy people with mental health.
So now a lot of these women are in a situation where they are too sick to work but are refused benefits even though they are terminally ill.
I would say a percentage of these women will end up in sex work because the hours are short and they are not physically well enough to do 8 hour shifts.
DONT JUDGE YOU DONT KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH

So what?!

I know this is a zombie thread but am I the only person who thought the, ahem, sex worker/prostitute and the receptionist had a sweet deal going on, she paid them a cut price rate, they kept the cash (rpt cash - most hotels prefer a CC these days), she could conduct her business in safety and all was cushty.
Disclosure - I worked in a hotel as a student and discovered many such 'deals' going on. Chefs, waiters, housekeeping, under managers, there were fiddles aplenty. Generally financial but also sexual.

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OP never did answer how the woman was dressed but I also assume she meant she dressed like a street walker and my thought is, why would a prostitute doing business from a hotel room need to dress like a street walker? The clients know what she does they've booked her in advance! I'd expect a prostitute working from a hotel to be dressed casually when they arrive then change into her client receiving outfits, or lack of, in the room.

She was obviously a prostitute by the way she dressed ....

A girl is stuck in London after leaving a club and needed somewhere to stay....

After leaving a rave she couldn't get a taxi home so stayed in a hotel ...

Do these things not happen? Because I have done these things or stayed with a partner from the day before in my club clothes. Wonder if others thought I was a brass too

This is so weird, you have no idea she was a brass. Even if she was so what where do you live in a cave in the middle of nowhere

Wow! A whole 7 days? THIS POST IS ANCIENT!!!! Just got the email today. Complain to mumsnet. And then there's that whole pesky detail that YOU CAN STOP FOLLOWING THIS POST IF YOU DONT WANT TOBSEE IT. Your bus to school wasn't white as long as the others, was it.

Seriously @jsterr1 why resurrect this thread which hasn’t been active for SEVEN days.. and quote the entire OP above your post?

i have a theory (related to getting more traffic and a frenzy of posts for advertisers) but I’ll get deleted by Mumsnet for even suggesting it

Bad news for you, that goes on in EVERY hotel. So unless she's knocking on your door asking to use your room, it's none of your business.

Is this the best you can do ? Attacking someone who has made a valid argument and backed it up ? You used the words ‘nasty misogynistic language’. I would suggest you have no idea what that means.

This is utter bollocks. And you urgently need to educate yourself.

This 100%. Excellent analysis. The selling of sex in a public place is a criminal offence in the UK, resulting in women being prosecuted for the same ‘crimes’ over and over again, which impacts them in all sorts of ways and makes it very difficult to escape their situation. Meanwhile men can’t be prosecuted unless it can be proved that they are engaging the services of a woman who has been trafficked. The most they can be prosecuted for is kerb crawling and most get off with a slap on the wrist. Prostitution in the vast majority of cases, is not a valid career choice, and trying to sanitise it by calling it sex work is doing a massive disservice to those who are trafficked and exploited.

I'll just repeat again for anyone who's come in on the middle of this: I and the majority of people who campaign for the Nordic model (criminalising the men who buy sex and not the women who sell sex) don't use the phrases sex work and sex workers because they fail to acknowledge the exploitative nature of the activity, or the sheer abuse inherent within the business of buying and selling and abusing women's bodies. The phrases sex work and sex workers have enabled men/ punters to argue that prostitution is a valid career choice. It's not for millions living in sex slavery, trafficked and exploited.

Ok.

I cannot patronise you without your permission and I do not care at all about how you think I look.

You don't seem superior to me. Your attitude gives away your superior view of yourself.

Seeing 'things differently' is fine and I have done my reading, thanks.

What you and your mate either don't realise or don't care about is that your superior attitude and insistence on using words like prostitute, prostitution and prostituted, increases the stigma suffered by women and girls in sex work and places them in even more danger.

Your words are harmful to them. You are increasing, in your words, 'the suffering of millions of women worldwide'.

But please enjoy linking articles and exercising your right to refer to others using nasty misogynistic language.

At one time I would have locked you into a three day argument with pleasure but I know your behaviour and unkind language towards sex workers will continue regardless.

Who let the pimp in?

I can, yes. I'm just not inclined to. I won't be drained by women like you or your mate.

Patronising someone who has linked useful information and is clearly concerned about the exploitation and commodification of women's bodies is not a good look.

Trying to demean them by calling them a clever girl as though they are a dog is frankly horrid.

You should apologise to @LetsTalkTwaddle. You can argue your point without resorting to such nasty behaviour can't you?

I guess superior is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? If you look at me and feel I'm superior, what does that say about you and your self-esteem?

Perhaps if you stopped trying to cut other women down to your own size and read a UN report on violence against women and girls and had a real think about the subject, I wouldn't seem so superior to you. I'm not superior to you, obviously, I just see things differently and you don't like that.

But I appreciate that it's easier to be snide than to do a bit of reading and thinking and disagreeing in an adult, constructive way.

And extremely superior too!

I'm thrilled for you, you clever clever girl.

I'm fairly clever, yes, thank you. Not a rocket scientist, but not stupid.
If you read the UN report I linked to you might learn something. That's how I got more clever. By reading and thinking seriously about things, and not letting people bully me into adopting fashionable but misguided opinions. Try it, it might suit you too.

'I also refuse to accept the concept of 'sex work.' I think it's a whitewashing phrase designed to make the whole business of prostitution, sex trafficking and the suffering of millions of women worldwide look respectable. I see prostitution as part of the systematic oppression and degradation mainly of women.'

Aren't you clever!

Yes I saw that. Along with the disgusting rapey and dehumanising “reviews”

We need to be very careful about calling it work. I can't remember the exact details but I think in Germany there was an issue with women having the threat of their benefits removed if they refused to take a 'job' in the sex industry