Prostitution in the United Kingdom Prostitution in Northern Ireland Prostitution in Scotland Prostitution in the Crown dependencies
Brothels
Holland's Leaguer Silver Cross Tavern
Law
Contagious Diseases Acts Policing and Crime Act 2009 Sexual Offences Act Sexual Offences Act 1956 Sexual Offences Act 1985 Sexual Offences Act 2003 Street Offences Act 1959 R v Linekar Common prostitute
Organisations
English Collective of Prostitutes Manchester Action on Street Health Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement UK Network of Sex Work Projects United Sex Workers x:talk
Red-light districts
Calton, Glasgow Gropecunt Lane Hillfields Kings Cross, London Leith Mountfields, Shrewsbury Pillgwenlly Soho Tiger Bay
Violence
Bradford murders Camden Town Murder Hammersmith nude murders Ipswich serial murders Jack the Ripper Murdered sex workers in the UK Murder of Karen Price Peter Sutcliffe Murder of Lynette White Whitechapel murders
Other
Bawdy House Riots of 1668
Ephraim John Burford Call Me Elizabeth Caroline Coon Cleveland Street scandal Cross Bones Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies Internet prostitution My Secret Life (memoir) Personal Services Revolting Prostitutes Sally Lodge Sex, Drugs & Murder: Life in the Red Light Zone Silver Cross Tavern Soho walk-up The Poor-Whores Petition Tart card
People
Brothel owners & madams
Theresa Berkley; Betty Careless; Elizabeth Cresswell; Jane Douglas; Margaret Fernseed; Bess Holland; Charlotte Hayes; Mary Jeffries; Janie Jones; Darkey Kelly; Walter Kennedy; Sally Lodge; Elizabeth Needham; Dora Noyce; Damaris Page; Cynthia Payne; Emily Robin
Courtesans
Elizabeth Armistead; Sophia Baddeley; Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland; Moll Davis; Sarah Fairbrother; Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères; Grace Elliott; Kitty Fisher; Seymour Fleming; Emma, Lady Hamilton; Harriet Howard; Dorothea Jordan; Lillie Langtry; Fanny Murray; Mary Nesbitt; Cora Pearl; Teresia Constantia Phillips; Martha Ray; Mary Robinson; Catherine Walters; Emily Warren; Harriette Wilson
Pimps
Messina Brothers; Sarah Rachel Russell
Prostitutes
Lily Argent; Susannah Buckler; Betty Careless; Hannah Chaplin; Annie Chapman; Deborah Churchill; Monica Coghlan; Elizabeth Cresswell; Catherine Eddowes; Margaret Fernseed; Priss Fotheringham; Elizabeth Jackson; Rebecca Jarrett; Constantia Jones; Mary Jane Kelly; Moll King; Vicky de Lambray; Sally Lodge; Catherine Lynch; Edith McAlinden; Mary Ann Nichols; Damaris Page; Charlotte Rose; Selina Rushbrook; John Rykener; Sally Salisbury; Aiden Shaw; Emma Elizabeth Smith; Lindi St Clair; Elizabeth Stride; Martha Tabram; Jenny Thompson; Sheila Vogel-Coupe; Rosemary West; Lynette White; Helen Wood
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"Tart cards" in phone boxes advertise the services of call girls in London (an illegal, but once common practice).[1]A doorway advertising "Models" in Brewer Street, Soho, London, an example of a Soho walk-up.
In Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), the act of engaging in sex as part of an exchange of various sexual services for money is legal,[2] but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, pimping and pandering, are illegal. In Northern Ireland, which previously had similar laws, paying for sex became illegal from 1 June 2015.[3]
Though laws regulating sex work exist, they are not always strictly enforced, with some reports in March 2016 of police forces turning a blind eye to brothels.[4] Since then, however, there have been reports of crackdowns on brothels in the U.K.[5][6] Many brothels in cities such as Manchester, London and Cardiff operate under the guise of "massage parlours".
Although the age of consent is 16 throughout the United Kingdom, it is illegal to buy sex from a person under 18 where the perpetrator does not reasonably believe they are 18 or over.[7] In England and Wales, it is an offence to pay for sex with a sex worker who has been "subjected to force", constituting a strict liability offence - wherein the client of a sex worker can be prosecuted for the offence, even in the absence of fault or criminal intent to force a sex worker to provide sexual services for them.
^Caroline Archer, Tart Cards: Londons Illicit Advertising Art (Mark Batty Publisher, 2003).
^Casciani, Dominic (19 November 2008). "Q&A: UK Prostitution Laws". BBC News. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
^"Human Trafficking Bill receives Royal Assent". BBC News. 14 January 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
^Nazia Parveen (29 March 2016). "Manchester sex workers' rights case collapses after five years". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 May 2016. Women had previously had the endorsement of police to keep the brothel and officers had turned a blind eye.
^"Dozens of arrests in the UK as part of Europe-wide anti-slavery operation". National Crime Agency. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
^Phillips, Alexa (31 October 2020). "Hundreds arrested for 'running brothels' as sex workers say it's the laws that are criminal". Sky News. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
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