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Mary Honeyball
« on: 13 February 2014, 10:50:13 pm »
I am listening to this Labour MEP, on LBC radio and totally shocked at the figures and information she was giving out, she wants to bring the Nordic model of prostitution of criminalising the clients to the EU.  She has claimed 80% of sex workers in the UK  are trafficked amongst other obviously inaccurate statistics.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/europe-votes-penalising-prostitute-clients-39-nordic-model-103118587.html#cSDRNBl

Does anyone know if this has any chance of success.

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #1 on: 14 February 2014, 03:13:52 pm »
I just sent her a tweet to say "@maryhoneyball I challenge you to phone escorts from any of the online directories & find 1 single escort who supports the Nordic model." ..

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #2 on: 14 February 2014, 04:51:02 pm »
I have also just found this site

http://www. object.org.uk/the-prostitution-facts

And wonder where they get the info from


    75% of women involved in prostitution started as children.

    74% of women cite poverty as the primary motivator for entering prostitution (Melrose 2002).

    Up to 70% of women in prostitution spent time in care, 45% report sexual abuse and 85% physical abuse within their families (Home Office 2006).

    Up to 95% of women in prostitution are problematic drug users, including around 78% heroin users and rising numbers of crack cocaine addicts (Home Office 2004a). 

    More than half of UK women in prostitution have been raped and/or seriously sexually assaulted. At least three quarters have been physically assaulted (Home Office 2004b).

    68% of women in prostitution meet the criteria for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the same range as torture victims and combat veterans undergoing treatment (Ramsey et al 1993).

    Four out of five women working in London brothels are thought to be foreign nationals (Dickson 2004).

    The mortality rate for women in prostitution in London suffer is 12 times the national average (Home Office 2004a).
    A global study of prostitution found that 9 out of 10 women in prostitution would like to exit if they could (Farley, 2003).

    Ten years ago it was estimated that around 80,000 women were in prostitution in the UK (Kinnell 1999). Many experts believe the number to be far higher now.


As usual with all these "surveys" they never seem to ask me, so who do they ask? Probably the girls that seek help from organisations, this can lead to misguided representation.

Sarah x x x





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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #3 on: 14 February 2014, 05:00:04 pm »
I too wondered where she got her info from as it doesn't make any sense, or describe any of the people I know.

She is putting her report on recommending the Nordic model to the European parliament in Strasbourg later this month according to her website.  You can listen to her radio interview on her site as well, I can believe how someone can write such blatant lies, I was so angry after listening. 





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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #4 on: 14 February 2014, 06:22:02 pm »
They seem to listen to absolutely everyone apart from the workers.

These statistics are largely based on GLOBAL prostitution not in the UK. Its absolutely an absolute farce. I think the people who they ask tend to be the people who are reaching out for help. There are a tonne of us not reaching out because we don't need it.

I hate to burth their bubble but there is such a thing as a happy hooker!

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #5 on: 19 February 2014, 01:36:58 pm »
If I remember rightly the Farley report was based on a sample of 18 & 19 year old street workers. This type of sample of sex workers is going to yield a high number starting under the legal age of 18, and who probably do want to get out of the work they are doing.

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #6 on: 19 February 2014, 02:43:12 pm »
Does anyone else think that Mary Honeyball sounds like a great escort name. Might have to change my working name  ;D

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #7 on: 19 February 2014, 03:31:12 pm »
If I remember rightly the Farley report was based on a sample of 18 & 19 year old street workers. This type of sample of sex workers is going to yield a high number starting under the legal age of 18, and who probably do want to get out of the work they are doing.

Yes that would be right, most of the info they gain is from girls that go looking for help, which means that you get a high percentage of girls who fall into the vulnerable category. It is great that there are these foundations / help centres for girls to call on but they are misguided to class us all the same.

Many "do-gooders" are very naive and usually easy to play up to with a good sob story, the worse you make your life sound the more help they will give you, they are often "looking" for people who have been abused by others to justify the way they think the world works.

If only we could get the message across to these people that they are doing a great job and to leave the rest of us "normal" people alone to do a job we choose to do of our own free will, as they do.

Sarah x x x

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #8 on: 19 February 2014, 06:16:25 pm »
Does anyone else think that Mary Honeyball sounds like a great escort name. Might have to change my working name  ;D

Ha Ha, I just clicked on this thread to add the very same comment  ;D

It always amazes me how when it comes to the subject of prostitution such poor excuses for research seem to be accepted by academic and political communities. If it was any other topic you wouldn't get away with that rubbish.

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #9 on: 19 February 2014, 07:58:48 pm »
If I remember rightly the Farley report was based on a sample of 18 & 19 year old street workers. This type of sample of sex workers is going to yield a high number starting under the legal age of 18, and who probably do want to get out of the work they are doing.

Yes thats what I recall - or at least something similar - and a very small sample group which again skews the results.

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #10 on: 23 February 2014, 10:25:54 am »
She is on BBC1 now on the big questions. 2 minutes in and she is already lying....

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #11 on: 23 February 2014, 10:42:44 am »
Fortunately she appears to be losing the debate.  Her opposition is presenting a coherent and intelligent argument.

It is a shame there are no current, happy independent escorts representing the majority of us on the programme though.

Going to stop watching now before I burst a blood vessel.. getting very irrate at this women.

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #12 on: 26 February 2014, 02:15:55 pm »
Quoting from 'International Business Times'

'Nordic Model of Prostitution Approved by European Parliament

A vote at the European Parliament that supports the 'Nordic Model' of prostitution has been voted through with a large majority.

Put forward by Labour London MEP Mary Honeyball, the model of prostitution law criminalises the client instead of the sex worker.

At the vote, 343 members voted in favour of the report, 139 against and 105 people abstained.'

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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #13 on: 09 March 2014, 02:38:12 pm »
Does anyone else think that Mary Honeyball sounds like a great escort name. Might have to change my working name  ;D

 ;D do it. It would be a great spoof.
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Re: Mary Honeyball
« Reply #14 on: 09 March 2014, 10:03:09 pm »
Does anyone else think that Mary Honeyball sounds like a great escort name. Might have to change my working name  ;D

 ;D do it. It would be a great spoof.

+1

Sarah x x x