‘Sex for rent’ is illegal in the UK. Why are thousands of people still affected?

Because as long as the risk of coercion isn’t higher than the risk of homelessness in that situation, creeps will continue to do it because odds are in their favour. If you are in that precarious of a situation, and ending up on the streets in the cold and the rain is a larger possibility than the creep who exploits that precariousness to “get some” who might only get a slap on the wrist or dismissed in the courts as a possible outcome, this becomes the most probable outcome.

Most would say… call the police and ask them to listen in to these creeps “negotiating” their chances of sex after iniatially proposing them. No recording. Direct line and called in as distress in the form of coercion.

I agree, but… most people are still afraid of what people who are capable of these heinous propositions are still capable of doing to them after being exposed. Fear of retaliation. Added to the the fact that they’re still not gonna know where they’re gonna live.

Yes, this requires much more attention. And not just in the UK. Everywhere.

But I also need to say this… if nobody is under coercion, I have zero problems to the agreements that people come to on their own terms. It’s a tough and shitty world out there, and I’m not gonna shame anyone for making offers to get by or to get a roof over their heads. If both parties have no issue, neither do I.

But if there’s coercion. That’s the same as rape. Plain and simple.

If not, have fun and no need to bother anyone.

Because laws need enforcement to mean anything

maybe because the alternative is not having a fucking place to live??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_United_Kingdom

In Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), the act of engaging in prostitution or exchanging various sexual services for money is legal

Given that sex for money is legal in the UK, and money for rent is also legal, you’d think that there’d be some middleman stepping in here.