You need to read this article about the Leeds red light district.

[DJLippy]

I read this blog about the Leeds red light district from someone who lives there. It's so illuminating. This needs a wider audience - please share on social media. This is what decriminalisation looks like.

littlegirlblue.blog/2018/05/25/living-in-the-red-light-district/

I'm from Leeds, and used to live just up the road in Beeston. I moved nearer Halifax a few years ago.
I had no idea it was so bad in Holbeck, and I had a few friends who lived there back in the day. Really interesting to hear peoples views coming from outside the area, I had no idea the police are so bad in comparison to other but then I grew up with it so I don't know any different.
Going back to read full thread now.

If it was happening to me then i would secretly publish vehicle registrations of all suspicious cars found circling the area and/or talking to prostitutes. I'd put it on my blog.

Yes mate!

"Shamelessly quiet"

I was actually thinking the same about some of those who were posting on the Lush thread. (regarding my recent threads about what happened on the night of the England match but they are conspicuous by their absence on this thread too.

m.facebook.com/groups/535996623203900?view=permalink&id=1299167563553465&ref=m_notif&notif_t=group_highlights

And the delightful as ever UK Punting thread on the topic:

www.ukpunting.com/index.php?topic=83027.150

Going to work in Holbeck in normal summer clothes is decidedly uncomfortable. The residents’ group are doing great work documenting breaches. It’s just hard to understand how anyone thought this was a good idea in the first place. The ukpunting thread shows that, at least for this subsection of men, South Leeds is becoming a sex tourism destination.

Dammit, I can't find this blog anymore. The link says it's not there anymore. Does anyone know why it was removed or have a copy of it? I need it!

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/sex-worker-run-over-by-client-in-holbeck-leeds-in-dispute-over-payment-1-9253832

Bloody hell, Floof, that's awful.

But "sex work is a job like any other." After all, who hasn't been deliberately run down by a client and left in hospital with a broken leg in the course of their day job.... Oh, hang on a moment.

This happened virtually on the doorstep of Ingram Road primary school, in a residential area that is not part of the ‘managed area’ which adds to the evidence that counters the ‘what’s the problem sex work stays in the industrial estate’ stuff.

Entirely predictable.

Has anyone got a fabulous idea to get this stopped?
I been wracking my brain, but nothing comes to mind.

Placemarking.

Some good investigative journalism to expose what is going on in West Yorks generally IMO.

Not looking likely...

Similar story in Birmingham's Soho Road

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/watch-prostitutes-soho-road-reveal-14933507

The reality of prostitution as opposed to the wickedly false version in Pretty Woman

Has anyone got a fabulous idea to get this stopped?
I been wracking my brain, but nothing comes to mind.

The Nordic Model

nordicmodelnow.org/what-is-the-nordic-model/

From the link:

'What we are campaigning for in the UK
Each country that has introduced the Nordic Model approach has implemented it a little differently. It has been most successful in Sweden where it was introduced as part of a raft of legislative measures to tackle male violence against women and girls and to address sex inequality.

We believe we must learn from the experience in other countries and introduce the Nordic Model as part of a raft of measures.'

That poor woman, almost murdered by a John. Instead of sanctioning the abuse of these poor desperate women, the state should be helping them rebuild their lives.

We should start a campaign to shut this horror show idea down. Women are not commodities to be bought and sold and abused! Alongside shutting it down there should be a scheme for women to get counselling, support and there should be real employment provided for them.

From memory there was a local politician who is trying to shut the red light district. We should support her.

And yes to the Nordic model. It’s the only civilised way to manage prostitution.

Article in today’s telegraph:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/23/disaster-day-one-end-britains-first-legal-red-light-district/

It's a very good article bablefish perhaps it needs a new thread?

Good point :) - have started on

It’s an outright failure. Shame on the male politicians Hilary Benn and Mark Dobson for their weasel words.
Women are human beings. We deserve hunan rights. Allowing a market system where a certain class of women can be bought and sold is fundamentally wrong. No tinkering around with regulation can solve it.

These quotes are good from the article

“It was a disaster from day one. Other criminals came into the area quick as a flash. Drug dealers, pimps, even traffickers that brought the women from Romania… the women were given carte blanche and it was like there was a total amnesty on any of the scumbags buying and selling the girls,” added the officer.

And this one

“Our argument is that it’s not appropriate to have girls bought and sold on our streets in 2018,” said Claire Bentley-Smith, a resident.

Just saw this...the women's equality pRty has a talk at their conference on a subject related to this thread...

The Women's Equality Party conference is the biggest event on the feminist calendar. More than one thousand delegates will come together to raise the roof and push for equality.

The weekend will be jam-packed with workshops, activist training, inspirational speakers and cutting-edge ideas. Members will have the chance to put forward their motions to be debated and voted on.

Whether you are new to politics or a seasoned campaigner, there is something for everyone.

TICKET PRICES

Early bird: £65 - SOLD OUT
First wave standard: £85 (Members get £15 off)
Second wave standard: £95
Young person (15-25): £70
Standard ticket + annual membership combo: £100
Comedy evening: £15.00

PROGRAMME

REPEAL THE HATE
Meet the women leading the reproductive resistance

• Claudia Craig, Activist
• Ailbhe Smyth, Together for Yes
• Emma Campbell, Alliance for Choice
• Rachael Clarke, British Pregnancy Advisory Service

WOMEN IN THE LINE OF FIRE
The links between acts of mass violence and violence against women

• Nazir Afzal OBE, Lawyer
• Joan Smith, Activist and Author

BIG DATA: WILL TECHNOLOGY FIX OR INEQUALITY OR DEEPEN IT?
The potential of technology to help or hurt women

• Catherine Mayer, Co-Founder of the Women's Equality Party
• Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan
• Caroline Criado Perez, Author and Activist
• Karen Salt, Nottingham University
• Seyi Akiwowo, Glitch UK

TURN OFF THE RED LIGHT
One woman's account of surviving prostitution and fighting to end it

• Mia de Faoite, Activist and Survivor of Prostitution

THIS CENTURY IS OURS
100 years since the first women got the vote, what's next for the feminist movement?

• Caroline Criado Perez, Activist and Author
• Sam Smethers, Fawcett Society
• Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Women's March London
• Amika George, Free Periods

LEADER'S SPEECH
Sophie Walker, Women's Equality Party

MAN OR MATRIARCH
On why all men should want to live in a matriarchy

• Jordan Stephens, Actor and Writer

THE 94%
Conviction Rates for Rape, do we need to radically rethink our criminal justice system?

• Olivia Smith, Anglia Ruskin University
• Jenn Selby, IC Change
• Emily Hunt, Activist

GROSSLY UNDERVALUED DOMESTIC PRODUCT
Why women are still outside the economic sphere and whether we should care

• Sandi Toksvig, Women's Equality Party

CROSS-PARTY PANEL
Representatives of all parties come together to discuss how to get more women into policies

• Hannah Bardell, SNP
• Amelia Womack, Green
• Nicky Morgan, Conservative
• Liberal Democrat TBC
• Labour TBC

VAMPS, VICTIMS AND FEMINAZIS
With trust in the media at an all-time low, is it time to write new narratives?

• Speakers TBC

ANY ANSWERS
Find out how to answer any question, from the obscure to the infuriating

• Sophie Walker, Leader of the Women's Equality Party

Plus much more. See the full programme: https://bit.ly/2mEvUUw

@Bowlofbabelfish can you link here to new thread please?