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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People who survey sex workers only have access to street sex workers. That is what these stats are based on.

Massage parlours, escort agencies even indies are not likely to waste their time answering these questions.