Edinburgh Live’s Whatsapp Community here <\/b><\/a>and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n\u201cAbsolutely. If you don\u2019t want to vote for this and believe in decriminalisation, stand tall and be counted. I really hope your daughters never, ever end up in that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
She described herself as a \u201csex trade survivor\u201d and said: \u201cI spent 11 years entrenched in the life. \u201cEvery day I thought I would be murdered, every day I experienced rape, by ordinary men, ordinary men whose lives were not impacted for one second like the women and girls who were being used.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was criminalised, my perpetrators weren\u2019t, none of the men who bought me, none of them who trafficked me about and profited from me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bill, based on the Nordic model of targeting sex buyers, would also quash historic convictions and establish a right to public service support for prostitutes.<\/p>\n
The Bill\u2019s focus is on sex acts and would not include lap dancing bars or services bought through sites such as OnlyFans.<\/p>\n
However, Scottish sex workers have responded to the Regan Bill by launching a campaign to fight the proposed new law.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Scotland for Decrim\u2019 has warned that the laws would \u201cput them in more danger\u201d, push the industry underground and expose people to more violence.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the campaign said: \u201cScotland for Decrim absolutely rejects Ash Regan\u2019s attempts to bring in the Nordic Model on sex work in Scotland. As a sex worker-led coalition campaigning for our rights, we know that this offensive bill will endanger sex workers by exposing us to more violence, poverty, and exploitation.<\/p>\n
“Criminalising clients does not solve the reasons why people go into sex work: because of financial need, caring responsibilities, disability, or simply preferring this work to other kinds of work.<\/p>\n
\u201cSex workers are the experts on our own needs. We know that only full decriminalisation will protect our safety, health, and human rights, giving us the power to choose when and how we work. The Scottish Government must also urgently strengthen the social security system so that everyone has access to the resources they need to live, and so that no one has to do sex work if they don\u2019t want to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former prostitute claims current MSPs bought sex from her when she sold her body for money. Edinburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[17041,748,1102,4884,53509,53507,712,53506,53508,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-119673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-ash-regan","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-msps","13":"tag-regan-bill","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-the-bill","16":"tag-the-daily-record","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114545626227225298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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