Disabled men don’t normally have criminal records. And they don’t often end up on a sex offenders’ register. But that will change if Harriet Harman gets her way to criminalise prostitution and all involved. Because overnight, many otherwise law abiding and tax-paying citizens are going to find they are committing a crime. Paying for sex. Because the assumption is that the sex worker is drug addict being forced to work to feed her habit or being forced to work against her will.

I think, amidst the hysteria of trafficking, the Ipswich prostitute murders, etc, our MP’s want to do what they think is the right thing. But they can’t see the wood for the trees and they will be failing their disabled constituents if they allow them to be criminalised because they want to try and deal with their sexual frustration in the only way open to them.

Below is an urgent release produced by Dr Tuppy Owens of the Outsiders Trust .

“Ariana Chevalier, Sex Worker of the Year 2007 has approached her MP to discuss the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, which was rushed through the House of Commons and is now with the House of Lords.

This Bill sets out to criminalise people who hire sex workers, and people who download extreme pornography. Plus, more sex workers would end up in prison.

Ariana and Dr Tuppy Owens of the Outsiders are particularly concerned with the rights of disabled people, who may have limited sexual opportunities and need sex workers and pornography for their mental health. They are planning a demo of disabled people chained to the railings near the House of Commons – and if you know anyone who wants to join in – please put them in touch.

Ariana’s MP suggested that she encourage others to write to their MP, so that other MPs will stop these awful ideas becoming law.

You may have been seeing lots of negative stuff about sex work in the media. What is happening here is what happened in Sweden – fundamentalist feminist jargon is being taken as fact. The justification of criminalising clients of sex workers in the UK was based on Fiona Mactaggart saying, “25,000 trafficked women were doing sex work in this country”. After searching for two years (Operation Parameter) the police only found 85 girls, and most of these knew why they were coming to this country. So this Bill is based on a lie. Beware – in Sweden they still don’t even discuss the men who are denied sexual services (or go underground to find them) because it is not part of the feminist ethic. PLEASE HELP US STOP THAT HAPPENING HERE!

This email is to encourage you to write to your MP. You can find your MP and their contact details by typing “Find your MP” into google.

MPs bin letters that are obvious copies of standard letters, so you need to personalise it with your own words and ideas. The disability argument is strong, as MP would not want to be seen to be denying disabled people of their rights. It’s good if you add stories of your own.

Here is what you could be discussing:

Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2008

• Would restrict the civil liberties of people including disabled people, of enjoying the freedom to pay for sex and download extreme pornography.

• Clauses to Oppose:

New Clause 2 would bring the criminalisation of clients. It would also force street workers into isolated areas where they are more vulnerable to attack.

Clause 104 Widens the definition of persistent soliciting to ‘two or more occasions in any period of three months’ thus making street workers more liable to be arrested and imprisoned.

Clause 105 introduces compulsory rehabilitation for sex workers, requiring anyone arrested for loitering or soliciting to attend a series of three meetings with a supervisor approved by the court. Failure to comply will result in a summons back to court and a possible 72-hours imprisonment. Amendment 11 would delete this Clause.

Section 64 Would criminalise the downloading and possession of some images of BDSM sex (Bondage, Domination, Sadism & Masochism)

Clause to support:

New Clause 13 The decriminalisation of two sex workers and a maid working from the same premises, which is sensible and adds to their safety. Mind you, with no clients (because it would be against the law) all the three of them can do together is sit there polishing their nails!

Sending a letter to your MP could make a difference to the lives of many people in this country. Otherwise people hiring sex workers and looking at extreme pornography will not only get arrested, fined and perhaps go to prison, they might also be put on the Sex Offences Register which would totally ruin their lives.

Those of you who cynically believe that politicians just vote for what they are told from above, you may prefer to write to the House of Lords – but hurry! they are meeting again on 5th February. I am listing some sympathetic members of the House of Lords below.

Should you think of other people who might be prepared to do this in other parts of the country, please spread the word.

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What can you do, if you care enough about this, or could be affected? Write a letter to your MP. Tell him you will not be labled as a sex offender just because society is uncomfortable with the idea of disabled people having sex.

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