The survey among sex workers in Glasgow found that 80 per cent of them had been subjected to a violent assault by men, and also concluded that six per cent of the women surveyed had been a victim of an attempted murder.
Sex workers in Glasgow are suffering violent attacks, according to a new survey in the wake of the conviction of Emma Caldwell's murderer.
She said: “Most of these crimes are not even reported to the police meaning there are men out there not being held accountable for violence and who are free to carry on harming women again and again. All women. Any one of the attempted murders noted in the survey could have been another Emma.
Six of the women in the survey had been trafficked from overseas to work in Scotland’s sex-for-sale trade. A quarter were under 18 when they were first involved in selling or exchanging sex. Eight of the women had attempted suicide while 14 had contemplated it. Nineteen of the women had a physical disability and the trauma of being involved in prostitution had also triggered chronic conditions like fibromyalgia, which causes pain throughout the body.
Despite the Scottish Government declaring prostitution to be violence against women, any attempts to criminalise the purchase of sex have been thwarted in parliament. Women can still be criminalised for involvement in the sex industry and a tenth of the those surveyed had convictions for prostitution-related offences.
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