Miss Charlie Daniels

MURDER OF SEX WORKERS

I am a former sex worker and now author of a book about my journey. Each time a sex worker is murdered I get an alert on google. I feel the loss personally but also feel helpless and wish I could do more...

BLOOD ON OUR HANDS

At 18, I was a single mum living in dire poverty. It hardly surprised anyone when I ended up on the streets, selling my body. But the streets were a hostile place and over a short space of time I was raped, mugged and beaten severely. One night I suffered the humilation of being bundled into the back of an unmarked police car...

PROBLEMS FACED WHEN LOOKING AT ATTACKS AGAINST PROSTITUTES

Street girls often move around dark secluded areas solo and getting into cars with unknown strangers they are also prey to pimps and attacks from other girls.
Brothels may be less likely to report attacks in case of a bust...

TIME TO BRING THE SEX TRADE OUT OF THE SHADOWS

Charlie Daniels, based in Leeds, is a media specialist on prostitution. Her book, Priceless, about her experiences in the vice trade in South Yorkshire, is out in paperback May 2007. The UK sex industry is about to have its biggest legal overhaul for years due to the Government's new strategy, Paying the Price.

KERB CRAWL CRACKDOWN

I was once a street girl, I plied my trade outside the now long-gone Jessops maternity hospital in Sheffield when I was just 18. Later on I worked at every level of the industry and have now written a book about my experiences (Priceless). I worked on the government strategy Paying The Price...

SO YOU WANT TO BE A MALE ESCORT?

If I had a pound for every time I had heard that one, I'd be a millionaire!
Why are men far more likely to want to go on the game than women? Most men would even give it away if their client was attractive enough...

THE CHANGING FACE OF PROSTITUTION

The sex market has exploded in the last decade.
It has also become more diverse due to a number of internal and external factors. Gone are the days when the only choice a client had was seedy, unsatisfying and dirty...

THE POLICE APPROACH

Of course, like all public servants, the police may have their own individual views and opinions but ultimately a higher force governs them...