The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is encouraging older people with a physical or mental health condition, or a disability, to check if they are entitled to Attendance Allowance, which is currently worth either £61.85 or £92.40 each week.
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A young escort has bravely shared their experiences of being treated 'less than human' and regularly fearing they are 'going to die'. This includes being punched and strangled while selling sex in a hotel with strangers threatening to rape, kill, or throw acid on her.
It's a risk many across the country take to make earnings of thousands of pounds a week. One has bravely lifted the lid on the industry to our sister website, BirminghamLive, to highlight just how dangerous the industry is.
She says she makes large sums of hard cash, likening it to 'drug dealing money'. And along with the gifts she receives she admits it is an 'addictive' lifestyle to just give up.
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It is not illegal to sell sex in the UK, though it is a crime to run or manage a brothel or exploit women into prostitution. Despite this, the woman says that some of the men see her as a "product they have purchased from the shop," who show no hesitation in stalking, harassing, or threatening her.
Online forums where men rate sex workers in 'vile TripAdvisor style' reviews fuel this abuse and violence towards call girls, she believes. "The way they talk about us like we are a piece of meat, like a piece of s***, it fuels that attitude that we're lesser than, it's demeaning and it's disrespectful," she claims.
"Some people make you feel unsafe because you can tell that they don't even respect you as a human being. And if someone doesn't respect you as a human being, they wouldn't give a s*** to abuse you, to harass you, to stalk you, to physically or sexually assault you because they see you as a product they have purchased from the shop - not as a person."
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is encouraging older people with a physical or mental health condition, or a disability, to check if they are entitled to Attendance Allowance, which is currently worth either £61.85 or £92.40 each week.
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