Monday, September 13, 2004

strong>Sex and the slave workers / Scotsman, 12 Sep 2004

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1071102004
Kate Foster
"The welfare of prostitutes has long been a serious social problem in Britain, with most selling their bodies and risking sex diseases to feed drug habits, many working the streets and some raped, attacked or murdered. But there is a growing underclass in the seedy world of the sex trade, of foreign women who are being forced to work as poorly paid prostitutes for powerful gangmasters. And some critics fear that proposals to relax Scotland?s prostitution laws could make it a hotspot for the gangs that traffic women. "