Prostitutes are selling themselves ‘for cost of a MEAL DEAL’ in Liverpool
Sex workers operate on the notorious Sheil Road in Liverpool where a number of prostitutes have been murdered
PROSTITUTES are reportedly selling sex for as little as a £5 to finance their drug habit as Eastern European competition sees them lower their prices.
A shocking new BBC documentary has highlighted the awful plight of women who are selling sex for the same price as a meal deal, as they say their debilitating drug addiction leaves them with little alternative.
One sex worker even confessed: “When you’re a heroin addict you’ll give unprotected sex for the sake of £10 for a bag of brown.”
Men are seen queuing up in Liverpool’s infamous red light district in new BBC3 documentary Sex Map Of Britain.
The prostitutes operate in the notorious Sheil Road area, where a number of sex workers have been murdered in the last few years.
They face aggressive customers and say they are selling their services for less and less as their prices have been driven down by Eastern European competitors.
Liam, who lives on the road, says he often has to help keep the sex workers safe from harm.
He told the BBC: “I’m not a pimp. I have nothing do with any of their money.
“They just buy me drinks, food, they don’t pay me. I just watch their backs to be honest with you.”
Liam described one night where there were five men were “lined up for £25 - that’s a fiver each.
“To offer £5 is downright bloody insulting.”
During the documentary, he is seen fending off an aggressive customer who is harassing a sex worker.
He reveals that he was once in a relationship with sex worker Natalie.
She has been working on Sheil Road for a year to finance her drug habit and carries out sex acts in a destitute house on the so-called strip. She admitted she had to lower her prices further because of where she was working.
Visibly upset, she said: “The only times somebody opens their arms to me is when dragging me on a bed.”
“What’s normal to me is getting up, getting dressed and getting to have sex with a different man day in, day out.”
Her housemate Jack, who also has a debilitating drug habit, believes an influx of eastern European sex workers has driven down prices.
He also revealed how crippling drug addiction drives competition among the sex workers.
He said: “It’s just because they’re battling for business - because they’re desperate to get crack.”
Groups of volunteers park up in a van nearby to provide refuge to sex workers.
On one of her days off, the documentary shows Natalie visit the van for a cup of tea and a chat about her situation.
She tells the volunteers she hopes to go to rehab one day, but tragically she returns to Sheil Road later that night.
A Liverpool Echo investigation into the area revealed that Merseyside has more street-based sex workers than anywhere else in the country outside of London.
It said local residents are forced to get taxis to the end of the street to avoid walking on the pavement which is littered with condoms.
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