Title: I worked in the sex trade; does that make me 'trafficked'?
Headings: I worked in the sex trade; does that make me 'trafficked'?
I worked in the sex trade; does that make me 'trafficked'?
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Content: It is rarely pointed out that of the trafficking referrals made to police in the UK, one in four are men, and domestic and agricultural exploitation counts for six of every 10 cases. No one seems to care about those numbers. But once sex is involved, the attitude changes dramatically. In forced sex trafficking estimates, most numbers have been overcounted, rather than undercounted. The numbers of supposed sex slaves quoted by MacShane are so unrealistic that, if true, they would account for the vast majority of prostitution in Britain. Regardless of how you feel about sex work, there are self-evidently many English women in it. For instance it is well known that the majority of street-based prostitutes are British, and almost all the rest are EU nationals. So his numbers are immediately suspect. Meanwhile data from the UK Network of Sex Work Projects (UKNSWP) records an estimate of 17,081 sex workers in some kind of contact with centres. Of these 4178 - about 24pc - work on the street.