Louise: People on their lunchbreak popping out for a quickie. With a client arriving, it was time for me to leave. The exchange of money for sex is legal in Britain so long as it doesn’t involve coercion, exploitation or any kind of public nuisance. ibid.
I’m just aroused a lot of the time. ibid. prostitute to Louis in cab
I wondered whether she was safe, and how she really felt about what was happening. ibid.
I was in Houston, Texas, on the trail of prostitutes and their pimps. At a time when the internet has made the sale of sex easier than ever before I was in one of America’s epicentres of sex trafficking. Louis Theroux, Dark States s1e2: Trafficking Sex, BBC 2017
‘Today, Texas’s Attorney General announced the arrest of the CEO of Back-Page online, calling the website ‘a grotesque form of modern slavery.’ ibid. television news
Her dependence and vulnerability suddenly laid bare. ibid.
There was a pull deeper than the money or the drama or in some cases the drugs – the need to feel valued and to show love. ibid.
Turkey has always been one of our top holiday destinations. But civil war in Syria has bought vices to its doorsteps … I’m here to find out how much tougher life is getting for women, and sex workers in particular. As the authorities crack down on a century of legalised prostitution. Stacey Dooley: Sex in Strange Places: Turkey, BBC 2016
The state even opened brothels. But under the tough new president Erdewan attitudes towards sex and sex workers are shifting and the brothels are being shut down. ibid.
1,500 licensed sex workers in Turkey, but there are 100,000 unregistered prostitutes who are even more powerless. ibid.
I’m in Brazil: sex is everywhere. But are people as open-minded as they make out? In a surprisingly prejudiced nation there is a light side we know about and a dark side we don’t: where selling sex is the only way to survive. Welcome to a dangerous world where nothing is as it seems. Stacey Dooley, Sex in Strange Places: Brazil
Rio has been voted sexiest place on an LGBT travel site. It’s estimated there are over a million trans-women in Brazil; the vast majority are sex workers. ibid.
Since communism collapsed in Russia anything can be bought and sold including sex. The super-rich have been running wild. And the high-class Russian call-girl is now a global icon. But is there another darker side in Russia? Stacey Dooley, Sex in Strange Places: Russia
Prostitution is illegal in Russia; running a brothel can get you five years. ibid.
Around three million prostitutes in Russia. ibid.
They have to pay the police every night. ibid.
Since 1990 an estimated 152 sex workers have been murdered in the UK. Women are 18 times more likely to be murdered whilst engaged in sex work. Crimes that Shook Britain s8e5: The Suffolk Strangler, captions, CI 2017
I’ve been hooking since I was thirteen, man. Who the fuck am I kidding? I’m a hooker. Monster 2003 starring Charlize Theron & Christina Ricci & Bruce Dern & Lee Tergesen & Annie Corley & Pruitt Taylor Vince & Marco St John & Marc Macaulay & Scott Wilson & Kane Hodder & Brett Rice et al, director Patty Jenkins, Aileen Wuornos
It is estimated there are 73,000 sex workers in the UK. The Sex Business s1e2: Working from Home, Channel 5 2018
In the UK the exact number of women selling sex on the streets to survive is unknown. Trapped in a world of drugs and danger. The Sex Business s1e3: Working the Streets
Everyone’s a whore, grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves. Peaky Blinders s1e3, Tommy, BBC 2013
You special special customer. Peaky Blinders s1e6, Chinese woman to head rozzer
You looking for something? You want some company? Ray Donovan s5e9: Mister Lucky, male prostitute to Ray, Showtime 2017
It’s an illegal workforce that’s an internet connection and a phone call away. The world’s oldest profession has moved online and indoors. Sex For Sale: American Escort, Mariana van Zeller reporting, National Geographic 2018
Prostitution is illegal for most of the United States. But if you look online, countless websites appear to sell sex. ibid.
Every weekend hundreds of escorts work the hotels and casinos along the Las Vegas strip. ibid.
First comes the seduction. Then comes the reality. This is a story about pimps. How they work, how they think, and what they’ll do to grab their share of the billion-dollar market for illicit sex in America. Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller s1e6: Pimps: Underworld Sex, National Geographic 2020
One of the most profitable crimes in France is prostitution; for some fifteen years a new foreign mafia has been placing its girls on the country’s streets. Gangs from Nigeria are believed to control virtually all of the African recruitment and exploitation networks. The French Connection: Inside the New Mafias, Youtube 2017
You’re not thinking of going back on the street are you, Randy? Trailer Park Boys s4e2: A Man’s Gotta Eat, Mr Lehey
I’m Tiffany Sweeney and I’m going to be stepping into the world of sugar dating. I go undercover and try sugar dating for myself joining over three and a half million people using sugar dating websites here in the UK. Sugar babies aim to find rich sugar daddies or mommas who will give them a monthly allowance; they can receive thousands of pounds in cash as well as expensive gifts. But what are some sugar babies expected to give in return? Secrets of Sugar Baby Dating, BBC 2019
Valentina currently has seven sugar daddies who give her a monthly allowance known in the sugar dating world as an arrangement. ibid.
‘They want to meet a girl that brings and injects like youthfulness back into their lives.’ ibid.
With 70,000 prostitutes across the UK everyone has a different story. I find out what drives men to use sex workers. And take to the streets in one of the scariest nights of my life. Sex on the Streets, Channel 5 2019
Lola’s flat is littered with seductive clues pointing to her profession. ibid.
Muslim clerics acting like pimps. Undercover in Baghdad we expose a secret world of sexual exploitation. Widows of war forced to become halal prostitutes. Men of God giving religious guidance on how to abuse children. In this hidden sex trade, even children are for sale. Undercover with the Clerics: Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade, BBC 2019
We found pleasure marriage widely available. ibid.
What can I do for you? Everything 2004 starring Ray Winstone & Jan Graveson & Lindy Sellars & Ed Deedigan & Katherine Cusby & et al, director Richard Hawkins, her to him opening scene
I just want to talk for a while. ibid. him to her
We follow criminals without them knowing. It’s as simple as that … Don’t get caught. Taken: Hunting the Sex Traffickers I, Channel 4 2021
Many are women, sex trafficked and hidden away in brothels. ibid.
This is an international trade in human misery. ibid.
Sex trafficking is one of the hardest crimes to prove as the victims are often too scared to come forward. ibid.
The potential link to organised crime and trafficking means the case is escalated and handed over to a high-level covert unit. ibid.
Across the UK organised crime groups are running pop-up brothels on an industrial scale. Taken: Hunting the Sex Traffickers II
It started off with an anonymous package through the door of the police station in Cirencester. ibid.
A specialist covert police unit has been tipped off about a group of sex traffickers … With Mark Viner out of the country, officers must follow all possible leads to prove he’s a human trafficker and a money launderer. For six months officers have been secretly filming the car park of the premises believed to be at the centre of Mark Viner’s operation. Taken: Hunting the Sex Traffickers III, captions
Before the case reaches trial, Mark Viner pleads guilty to 2 counts of human trafficking, keeping a brothel and money laundering. He is sentenced to 5 years and 9 months in prison. ibid. caption
The women being sold for sex. And the website cashing in from pimps. We reveal how some women for sale on Viva Street are being exploited. And we expose a suspected sex trafficker using the site. Panorama: Online Pimps Exposed, BBC 2021