Human rights groups OBJECT says motives like emotional need or loneliness do not justify the behaviour adopted by men who buy sex. “If men have needs that are emotional, then surely they should get some sort of counselling or find other ways to make friends and fill their lives, not through prostitution”, the group’s CEO, [...]
The secrecy often associated with the sex trade, aside from the stigma around prostitution, have made it hard for researchers to find accurate numbers of sex workers and clients who procure sex. Nevertheless, on a paper released in 2009, the Home Office estimated that the client population involved between 870.000 and 2.4 million men in [...]
Up to 2.4 million men in the UK might be paying for sex, official estimates say. Trying to break monotony in their sexual lives or feeling unfulfilled with their relationships, men seek for prostitutes’ services for a number of different reasons. But only a few admit to be clients: some say stigma around prostitution forces them [...]
According to the End Violence Against Women campaign, about 3 million women spread across the UK experience violence every year – being victims of domestic violence, rape, trafficking or other forms of abuse. Last year, Home Secretary Theresa May set as priority to “end violence against women and girls”, saying as well that she had [...]
