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Manchester Lads: Chav Lawyer: A Journey into Jake's Lust

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Romanian couple Alexe Popa and Gabriela Diac were last week convicted for operating pop-up brothels around south Manchester and employing Eastern European women as prostitutes. We need to stress the violence and stigma faced by sex workers who are all really brave, funny, kind women.

But while dealing with illegal brothels is a key focus for GMP, working on the streets is the harsh reality for many sex workers - both men and women.With support from Manchester Action on Street Health (MASH) police have managed to help street prostitutes. They’ve had information from people working in dilapidated properties such as carpenters and plasterers - and some of their best successes have come from nosy neighbours.

Popa, 30, organised the operation while Diac, 28, acted as a ‘telephone receptionist’ for potential customers from rented houses in Levenshulme, Longsight and Rusholme.

Manchester’s homelessness problem is feeding the rise with experts predicting more than two thirds of them have slept rough or lost their home at some point.

Chorlton Water Park: Situated in the south of Manchester, Chorlton Water Park is a nature reserve with walking trails and a lake. Some parts of the park, especially the more wooded areas, are known for cruising activity, mainly during the evenings and weekends. We work with a lot of lads in their mid twenties who are out having a great time in the Village, have a home but no job, with high drug and alcohol use and use sex work as something to do,” he says. “They are comfortable with it and happy with it.Rooms or flats within a building which are let separately to different individuals offering sexual services can also count as a brothel. Pop up brothels. Survival sex. Slavery. There's a lot more to Manchester's sex trade in 2017 than the calling cards that used to line phone boxes a decade ago. I’ve had people say ‘If I fancy him I won’t charge him’. That’s the reality for a young, out, gay sex worker. Some even see sex work almost as a right of passage. Fergal says there is a broad spectrum of male sex workers across the city but there are two common patterns.

He says: “We recently supported a lad who was persuaded to meet up with a client, they became obsessed with him, started calling him 20 times a day and then threatened to send the pictures to a close relative. They are hard to trace and even harder to shut down for officers faced with frightened women, who speak limited English and don’t trust the police. And contrary to their female counterparts, male sex workers don’t answer to a pimp or work in saunas or brothels. They advertise online. Fergal McCullough is director of charity The Men’s Room and supports male sex workers through creative engagement, outreach sessions, and advocacy support.Kerb-crawling is also banned, providing it can be shown the individual was causing a persistent annoyance. Manchester’s troubling homelessness problem has led to a rise in so-called ‘survival sex’ where young men, often with drug and alcohol problems, are forced to sell themselves to live. It’s part of a huge increase in male sex workers. Police know the women by name and look out for them. But if I was to take them around Manchester they would not know who any of the lads are,” he says. DC Nield explains: “A lot of the time we find out about pop up brothels because neighbours don’t want it on their street. The girls working in these premises are looked upon as a problem rather than human beings. Everyone surrounding them hates them because they are causing a problem in the area.

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