Decrim Now
@decrimnow.bsky.social
We are a grassroots campaign group led by sex workers, trade unionists & feminists. We fight for the full decriminalisation of sex work in the UK.
Take action: https://linktr.ee/ukdecrimnow
Take action: https://linktr.ee/ukdecrimnow
If you’re based in Scotland, please stand in solidarity with sex workers by coming to Scotland for Decrim’s protest outside Scottish Parliament next Tuesday. Sex workers and allies will be there protesting Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic model bill.
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you’re based in Scotland, please stand in solidarity with sex workers by coming to Scotland for Decrim’s protest outside Scottish Parliament next Tuesday. Sex workers and allies will be there protesting Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic model bill.
If you haven’t already, make sure you read this important Big Issue article on people, particularly women and disabled people, being driven into sex work by poverty, low pay, and the benefits system.
We recently spoke to @bigissue.com about the results of our recent research survey, exploring the reasons why people entered and remained in sex work.
You can read the article here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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You can read the article here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Growing number of disabled people turning to sex work amid rising living costs
The rising cost of living, cuts to benefits and welfare and poorly paid jobs have left some women and disabled people turning to sex work.
www.bigissue.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
If you haven’t already, make sure you read this important Big Issue article on people, particularly women and disabled people, being driven into sex work by poverty, low pay, and the benefits system.
Is sex work a trade union issue?
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Is sex work a trade union issue?
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
We recently spoke to @bigissue.com about the results of our recent research survey, exploring the reasons why people entered and remained in sex work.
You can read the article here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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You can read the article here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Growing number of disabled people turning to sex work amid rising living costs
The rising cost of living, cuts to benefits and welfare and poorly paid jobs have left some women and disabled people turning to sex work.
www.bigissue.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We recently spoke to @bigissue.com about the results of our recent research survey, exploring the reasons why people entered and remained in sex work.
You can read the article here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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You can read the article here: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Rights not rescue!
Join Scotland for Decrim & others rallying for sex workers' rights, & against the Nordic Model that puts them at risk of harm, violence, poverty & exploitation.
Driving sex workers underground will not keep them safe!
Tues 18 Nov, 6pm, Scottish Parliament
Join Scotland for Decrim & others rallying for sex workers' rights, & against the Nordic Model that puts them at risk of harm, violence, poverty & exploitation.
Driving sex workers underground will not keep them safe!
Tues 18 Nov, 6pm, Scottish Parliament
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Rights not rescue!
Join Scotland for Decrim & others rallying for sex workers' rights, & against the Nordic Model that puts them at risk of harm, violence, poverty & exploitation.
Driving sex workers underground will not keep them safe!
Tues 18 Nov, 6pm, Scottish Parliament
Join Scotland for Decrim & others rallying for sex workers' rights, & against the Nordic Model that puts them at risk of harm, violence, poverty & exploitation.
Driving sex workers underground will not keep them safe!
Tues 18 Nov, 6pm, Scottish Parliament
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A survey of 172 sex workers found that 76% of sex workers started in the industry due to financial need, with 77% identifying as disabled or living with a long-term health condition. Here is what two women told me of their experiences.
@decrimnow.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
@decrimnow.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Growing number of disabled people turning to sex work amid rising living costs
The rising cost of living, cuts to benefits and welfare and poorly paid jobs have left some women and disabled people turning to sex work.
www.bigissue.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A survey of 172 sex workers found that 76% of sex workers started in the industry due to financial need, with 77% identifying as disabled or living with a long-term health condition. Here is what two women told me of their experiences.
@decrimnow.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
@decrimnow.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
We are horrified but not surprised by this. No one connected to the Magdalene laundries should be involved in making law on any subject, let alone trying to push laws which endanger women who are doing sex work. Sex workers say no to the Nordic Model.
EXCLUSIVE: Ash Regan 'owes the Scottish public an explanation', campaigners have said, after it emerged a Holyrood group supporting her bill to outlaw buying sex is backed by an organisation that ran Magdalene laundries
Read here: tinyurl.com/ynept4fb
Read here: tinyurl.com/ynept4fb
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
We are horrified but not surprised by this. No one connected to the Magdalene laundries should be involved in making law on any subject, let alone trying to push laws which endanger women who are doing sex work. Sex workers say no to the Nordic Model.
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We are so delighted to see Catherine Connolly elected! She has consistently advocated for the health and safety of sex workers in Ireland during her time in the Dáil. While we will miss her as a TD, we know she will be a president for all on the island, especially the most marginalised.
October 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We are so delighted to see Catherine Connolly elected! She has consistently advocated for the health and safety of sex workers in Ireland during her time in the Dáil. While we will miss her as a TD, we know she will be a president for all on the island, especially the most marginalised.
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Launching the bill yesterday at the Red Umbrella Film Festival, Ruth Coppinger said “Reducing demand was a key aim of the 2017 Sexual Offences Act — this incontrovertibly has not worked, as the Minister for Justice himself admitted after the review of the legislation was published.
Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger
The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective. These organisations are made up of sex workers and activists who are drawing on…
sexworkersallianceireland.org
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Launching the bill yesterday at the Red Umbrella Film Festival, Ruth Coppinger said “Reducing demand was a key aim of the 2017 Sexual Offences Act — this incontrovertibly has not worked, as the Minister for Justice himself admitted after the review of the legislation was published.
Amazing work by our friends in Ireland to write and launch a bill to decriminalise sex work, which would enable sex workers to work together for safety, and improve their health and access to workers’ rights.
Press release: Decriminalisation of sex work bill launched by TD Ruth Coppinger
The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.
The bill was co-created by Red Umbrella Éireann, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and the Street Workers Collective.
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Amazing work by our friends in Ireland to write and launch a bill to decriminalise sex work, which would enable sex workers to work together for safety, and improve their health and access to workers’ rights.
We’ve sent an open letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to tell him that the the government must act urgently to prevent increasing numbers of women being driven into sex work by poverty and financial need.
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September 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We’ve sent an open letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to tell him that the the government must act urgently to prevent increasing numbers of women being driven into sex work by poverty and financial need.
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📢 We have signed an open letter, led by @decrimnow.bsky.social , calling on the UK Government to act on the poverty crisis driving more people, especially women, into s@x work.
Read more:
https://spectra-london.org.uk/2025/09/15/women-in-poverty-sx-work-spectra-open-letter/
Read more:
https://spectra-london.org.uk/2025/09/15/women-in-poverty-sx-work-spectra-open-letter/
September 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
📢 We have signed an open letter, led by @decrimnow.bsky.social , calling on the UK Government to act on the poverty crisis driving more people, especially women, into s@x work.
Read more:
https://spectra-london.org.uk/2025/09/15/women-in-poverty-sx-work-spectra-open-letter/
Read more:
https://spectra-london.org.uk/2025/09/15/women-in-poverty-sx-work-spectra-open-letter/
Thank you Maggie for being such an amazing and consistent ally to sex workers! We hugely appreciated the opportunity to come and speak in Scottish Parliament alongside our friends from Scotland for Decrim, National Ugly Mugs and the Street Workers’ Collective Ireland.
Sex workers are experts on their own safety.
Ash Regan's Prostitution Bill claims to protect them, while completely ignoring their voices.
But Scotland For Decrim are advocating for the marginalised. I was honoured to sponsor their event, & stand up for workers' rights✊
Ash Regan's Prostitution Bill claims to protect them, while completely ignoring their voices.
But Scotland For Decrim are advocating for the marginalised. I was honoured to sponsor their event, & stand up for workers' rights✊
September 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Thank you Maggie for being such an amazing and consistent ally to sex workers! We hugely appreciated the opportunity to come and speak in Scottish Parliament alongside our friends from Scotland for Decrim, National Ugly Mugs and the Street Workers’ Collective Ireland.
Our amazing colleagues Laura and Victoria in Scotland for Decrim were on the BBC’s Scottish news podcast Scotcast this week, speaking about why sex workers oppose Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic Model bill. Please listen and share, it’s a powerful episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Scotcast - Sex worker: Listen to me - BBC Sounds
How a proposed prostitution law could impact selling sex.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Our amazing colleagues Laura and Victoria in Scotland for Decrim were on the BBC’s Scottish news podcast Scotcast this week, speaking about why sex workers oppose Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic Model bill. Please listen and share, it’s a powerful episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Great article from our colleagues in the English Collective of Prostitutes about how criminalisation and poverty/financial need trap women in sex work. The government could solve this by decriminalising sex work and ensuring that our social security system is fit for purpose.
Outdated laws and benefit cuts: Why women can’t leave sex work
Outdated laws and benefit cuts: Why women can’t leave sex work
Poverty and cautions trap women in sex work – good policies could resolve this. But politicians don't want to know
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September 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Great article from our colleagues in the English Collective of Prostitutes about how criminalisation and poverty/financial need trap women in sex work. The government could solve this by decriminalising sex work and ensuring that our social security system is fit for purpose.
Trans people are overrepresented in sex work in large part because of the discrimination and abuse they face in other workplaces and wider society. This EHRC guidance will hugely amplify that. Please write to your MP to demand democratic oversight of this harmful guidance. #NoTransSegregation
The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
September 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Trans people are overrepresented in sex work in large part because of the discrimination and abuse they face in other workplaces and wider society. This EHRC guidance will hugely amplify that. Please write to your MP to demand democratic oversight of this harmful guidance. #NoTransSegregation
We were pleased to speak to Lauren recently for this important article on how the criminalisation of sex workers traps them in sex work, giving them a criminal record which makes it much more difficult to get another job. The government must take urgent action to ban prostitutes’ cautions.
Campaigners say sex workers are being punished for surviving, as Sharon recalls her first caution at just 15 in Bristol.
Find out more in my story, with so much help from English Collective of Prostitutes and Decrim Now, for @bigissue.com.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Find out more in my story, with so much help from English Collective of Prostitutes and Decrim Now, for @bigissue.com.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Sex workers 'trapped' in prostitution by 'unjust' police cautions
When sex workers receive a police caution it stays on their record for life, diminishing their chances of a future career.
www.bigissue.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We were pleased to speak to Lauren recently for this important article on how the criminalisation of sex workers traps them in sex work, giving them a criminal record which makes it much more difficult to get another job. The government must take urgent action to ban prostitutes’ cautions.
Don’t miss this interview with our colleagues in Scotland on why they oppose Ash Regan’s proposed bill to introduce the Nordic Model (client criminalisation) in Scotland. Thank you Neil for listening to sex workers 🙏
I want to thank the Scottish sex workers who spoke to me about the reality of their lives
It took courage to share their stories. I’ve huge respect for them
They’re deprived of a voice, demonised and marginalised, and face new laws that will endanger them www.heraldscotland.com/politics/252...
It took courage to share their stories. I’ve huge respect for them
They’re deprived of a voice, demonised and marginalised, and face new laws that will endanger them www.heraldscotland.com/politics/252...
'Becoming a sex worker saved my life - don't let politicians take that away from us'
Scotland's sex workers speak out and demand decriminalisation of prostitution as they campaign against proposed Holyrood legislation to introduce…
www.heraldscotland.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Don’t miss this interview with our colleagues in Scotland on why they oppose Ash Regan’s proposed bill to introduce the Nordic Model (client criminalisation) in Scotland. Thank you Neil for listening to sex workers 🙏
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It’s absolutely outrageous that @ameliagentleman.bsky.social has written this article and hasn’t included a single word from sex worker-led organisations or outreach charities that work with sex workers who oppose these proposals. Where is the balance? Where are the voices of actual sex workers?
June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It’s absolutely outrageous that @ameliagentleman.bsky.social has written this article and hasn’t included a single word from sex worker-led organisations or outreach charities that work with sex workers who oppose these proposals. Where is the balance? Where are the voices of actual sex workers?
“Sex workers know that only full decriminalisation will protect our safety, health, & human rights, giving us the power to choose when and how we work.”
Read more about our campaign to oppose the Nordic Model in Scotland: t.co/JMgYyBDNsb
Read more about our campaign to oppose the Nordic Model in Scotland: t.co/JMgYyBDNsb
May 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“Sex workers know that only full decriminalisation will protect our safety, health, & human rights, giving us the power to choose when and how we work.”
Read more about our campaign to oppose the Nordic Model in Scotland: t.co/JMgYyBDNsb
Read more about our campaign to oppose the Nordic Model in Scotland: t.co/JMgYyBDNsb
Decriminalisation of sex work makes people safer.
May 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Decriminalisation of sex work makes people safer.
Time and time again our arguments for decriminalisation are misrepresented as “sex work is empowering!”. Selling sexual labour is a means of survival not empowerment. And it’s often a dangerous one. Criminalisation makes it more dangerous.
May 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Time and time again our arguments for decriminalisation are misrepresented as “sex work is empowering!”. Selling sexual labour is a means of survival not empowerment. And it’s often a dangerous one. Criminalisation makes it more dangerous.
The criminalisation of sex work puts sex workers in danger.
It is against the law for sex workers in the U.K. to work together for safety.
Sex workers need decriminalisation & we need it now.
Use our tool to email your MP and demand full decrim.
decrim-email.netlify.app
It is against the law for sex workers in the U.K. to work together for safety.
Sex workers need decriminalisation & we need it now.
Use our tool to email your MP and demand full decrim.
decrim-email.netlify.app
May 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The criminalisation of sex work puts sex workers in danger.
It is against the law for sex workers in the U.K. to work together for safety.
Sex workers need decriminalisation & we need it now.
Use our tool to email your MP and demand full decrim.
decrim-email.netlify.app
It is against the law for sex workers in the U.K. to work together for safety.
Sex workers need decriminalisation & we need it now.
Use our tool to email your MP and demand full decrim.
decrim-email.netlify.app
Sex workers do not have to prove that they love their jobs in order to deserve workers’ rights
May 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Sex workers do not have to prove that they love their jobs in order to deserve workers’ rights