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"This excellent collection constitutes a timely and important intervention that captures the complex and contested nature of prostitution. It ought to be compulsory reading for all politicians, policy makers and academics claiming to have a say on this issue." Professor Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Recent years have seen a 'quiet revolution' in the way that the sex industry is regulated and governed. The consensus around what the problems of prostitution are has broken down and in its place a plethora of contradictory themes has emerged. "Regulating Sex for Sale" examines the total package of reforms and proposals that have been introduced in this area since May 2000. Bringing together some of the most well-known writers, researchers and practitioners in the field, it provides a detailed analysis and critical reflection on the processes, assumptions and contradictions shaping the UK's emerging prostitution policy. What are the unintended consequences of recent policies and how do they impact on the populations that they regulate? Do they contain any possibility for radical intervention and/or new ways of governing prostitution? The book describes the impact these policies have on indoor sex workers, street-based sex workers, young people, men or those with drug misuse issues. It also looks at the assumptions made by policy makers about the various constituencies affected, including the communities in which sex work takes place. This is the first book to address the contradictions in current policy on prostitution in England and Wales and will be of interest to academics, postgraduate students and policy makes in criminal justice, as well as in other areas, including children and young people, community safety and urban studies.
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This is a very timely edited book, which reviews New Labour's prostitution policy as it has evolved over the last three or four years. It is an excellent collection which covers the main areas affected by the emerging policy. Unfortunately it is also profoundly depressing, as it reveals just how damaging, ideologically driven and ill-informed is current government policy. The book makes it clear that Labour's policy in this area has been hijacked by blinkered radical feminists who are not interested in the opinions of either of those involved in sex work or of the majority of academics who study the area. New policies and the groups which are consulted are determined by whether or not they accept the radical feminist view that prostitution is a form of rape and therefore totally unacceptable. Criticism of the policy has focused on claims by Harriet Harman and Denis MacShane that Britain is becoming flooded with enslaved and trafficked women who are held against their will in brothels. Police efforts to rescue these victims have involved extensive raids, the most recent round of which, Pentameter 2, discovered precisely 0 trafficked women.
The book demonstrates, however, that the other main aspects of the policy are also deeply flawed. The policy aims to 'protect communities' by criminalising kerb crawlers and divert street prostitutes into other occupations, using ASBOs and various sorts of drug treatment orders. However, the book makes it clear that compulsion of this sort is unlikely to work, and that the housing, education and drug treatment which is supposed to be provided is unlikely in practice to be forthcoming. Figures which state that a high percentage of street prostitutes use heroin or crack cocaine are deceptive because it is possible to be an occasional user. Probably the most obviously undesirable form of prostitution is the coerced prostitution of minors, and the nearest the policy comes to being acceptable is in this area. However, it remains flawed because it does not come to terms with the well-resourced, skilled and long-term work required, and the housing and educational needs of the young people involved.
Several other critical chapters show how the policy has been developed with virtually no thought about male prostitutes; without serious consideration of prostitution policies in places such as New Zealand, where prostitution has been basically decriminalised, with a variety of desirable outcomes; how the developing English and Welsh abolitionist policy has already been implemented to a fair extent in Scotland, with serious damage being inflicted on outreach projects and on women who are endangered on the streets.
The book complements another recent book, Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy and Politics by Teela Sanders, Maggie O'Neill and Jane Pitcher. Jo Phoenix's book has a stronger policy orientation. It is thus more effective as a critique of recent government policy, but also -- hopefully -- more likely to become out of date as official policy changes.
The book demonstrates, however, that the other main aspects of the policy are also deeply flawed. The policy aims to 'protect communities' by criminalising kerb crawlers and divert street prostitutes into other occupations, using ASBOs and various sorts of drug treatment orders. However, the book makes it clear that compulsion of this sort is unlikely to work, and that the housing, education and drug treatment which is supposed to be provided is unlikely in practice to be forthcoming. Figures which state that a high percentage of street prostitutes use heroin or crack cocaine are deceptive because it is possible to be an occasional user. Probably the most obviously undesirable form of prostitution is the coerced prostitution of minors, and the nearest the policy comes to being acceptable is in this area. However, it remains flawed because it does not come to terms with the well-resourced, skilled and long-term work required, and the housing and educational needs of the young people involved.
Several other critical chapters show how the policy has been developed with virtually no thought about male prostitutes; without serious consideration of prostitution policies in places such as New Zealand, where prostitution has been basically decriminalised, with a variety of desirable outcomes; how the developing English and Welsh abolitionist policy has already been implemented to a fair extent in Scotland, with serious damage being inflicted on outreach projects and on women who are endangered on the streets.
The book complements another recent book, Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy and Politics by Teela Sanders, Maggie O'Neill and Jane Pitcher. Jo Phoenix's book has a stronger policy orientation. It is thus more effective as a critique of recent government policy, but also -- hopefully -- more likely to become out of date as official policy changes.
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