A petition to close down the Adult Work online prostitution website

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# 57:

9:53 pm PDT, Oct 20, Name not displayed, Maine
I thought prostitution was illegal in the USA? Over the phone or a webcam, or even text; it's still prostitution!

# 56:

8:09 pm PDT, Oct 18, Collen Elly, Washington
Everybody talk about escorting...what about webcamming?this isn't the only reason why aw should be shut down, they have the crapest system ever. Everybody can work in there, they dont ask you for ID or any other docs like other sites. I am sure there are alot of minor girls working on there. The newest thing they have it there its an " advisor" who its taking a percent of you if u do anything wrong. From what ive heard more than 300 girls deal with this advisor. U have to send all ur ID's scan to this bloke and who know who the f**k he is...could you trust him? And more than that paying him a percentage of your earnings if no you cant work again on aw?! Wtf!!! AW should be better than that, should have a better system, a way you could send all your documentation direct to them. They not straight and the involve third parties. Shame on it, for years seemed a good site, but has to go or has to become serious and treat the girls with respect, not forced them to go under this advisor "protection"

# 55:

11:38 pm PDT, Oct 14, Carole Hagen, Oregon

# 54:

10:25 am PDT, Oct 7, Sofialovessex X x x x, United Kingdom
All those IN FAVOUR of retaining the site Adultwork's place on the web - please stop signing this petition to voice how daft this petition is. You are only helping this petition grow otherwise. Instead, please put your 'signature' on the petition on this site to STOP Adultwork being closed down. See link below. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/help-stop-adult-work-getting-closed-down I too am an escort who maintains an independent profile on Adultwork and I also pay my taxes. I am very legal in the UK and wish to remain so. I have been a PA in Wealth Management for years so am not a silly woman with no intelligence. Adultwork is the safest site I have found as it tracks ip addresses of members so is even safer than running a web site on my own where I cannot run security checks on potential clients. It is a shame that some of the girls on Adultwork feel the need to offer bareback sex (no condoms), this I feel could be barred from the site. But that is no different to men and woman who go out for a night in the City and have unprotected sex - unprotected sex is found more in the City than on Adultwork. I don't know what type of men people think we meet. If you look at people on a street next time you are out and know that anyone of them could be my client, that would give you a better idea. It is your average joe that we meet, not sleazy, unclean axe murderer types. I can honestly say that the clients I have met are intelligent, caring men with a high sex drive that is not being met elsewhere for them. I am more than happy with my choice to step into escorting for the first time, in my late thirties when my sex drive is insatiable. We all know that the sale of sex is one of the oldest professions around the world and we all know that people have sexual desires. The latter will never change - you can't change human nature. Supporting regulation of these sites you so hate would be a better option than banning the all sale of sex as it doesn't go away, it just goes underground (look at Sweden) and becomes unsafe for all parties involved. If my Mother, who comes from a generation that view prostitution differently to my generation, can happily support me in my role of a legal independent tax paying escort having thoroughly checked out Adultwork with me from my side of the site as opposed to just viewing the site from a clients view of the site, then I know other people can support the choices of us escorting females and males on Adultwork. Remember woman pay for sex too - just not as often a men, we are not forced into this. I have always enjoyed professional roles that offer a service and I get satisfaction out of getting that service right and having a happy client. Put that together with my love of sex and it seemed only natural for me to choose to step into escorting. I can bet my bottom dollar that the woman who started this petition has not even bothered to look into how the site protects and ensures escorts work safely through it. Even my Mother was surprised. We see a different view of the site that clients see - and it has a lot of procedures in place that protect us not neglect us. The person behind Adultwork is human. What human being would want to run a site that caused harm to people.....? Seriously, they wouldn't be able live with the consequences. It would be the worst penalty to have.

# 53:

1:33 pm PDT, Sep 26, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
this site makes men think they can cheat on their partners without it feeling like cheating. advertises as escorts but when you read the ads it's openly prostitution! no wonder there are so many broken relationships! the word 'escort' makes it sound innocent. it is far from innocent!

# 52:

2:55 pm PDT, Sep 25, Shibumi Justwondering, United Kingdom
You just want the men to stop seeing prostitutes because you hate people enjoying themselves. Christian? Supply and demand will keep the site open or replaced. Rather teach women to be better in bed so that prostitutes are out of a job.

# 51:

9:40 am PDT, Sep 25, Mouse In a House, United Kingdom
I love Adultwork - this lady is a freak.

# 50:

2:26 pm PDT, Sep 22, Name not displayed, United Kingdom

# 49:

8:52 am PDT, Sep 6, Lucy Town, United Kingdom
I advertise on adultwork & NO I DO NOT OFFER UNPROTECTED SEX neither do any of my friends who also advertise on there. I have a very nice life threw this job, i pay my taxes, which the taxman takes quite happliy off me every month, so leave us alone go get a life & maybe look at the reasons why your man came looking for somebody like me in the 1st place.

# 48:

4:11 am PDT, Sep 6, Whose On, United Kingdom
what a great idea clare, closeing down this website will force all the girls on to the street, and in to the hands of pimps who push class A drugs, also it will leave them at risk of being murdered by the next jack the ripper, so if you want mass bloodshed on our streets please sign this petition.

# 47:

3:52 pm PDT, Aug 30, Embogo Nigerian49er, Afghanistan
send me 500 dollars and I will send you 10,000 signatures.

# 46:

2:21 pm PDT, Aug 29, Acid Casualty, United Kingdom
close it down, get the girls back on the streets!

# 45:

7:29 am PDT, Aug 29, Edwin Smith, United Kingdom
You sad cow, you have to much time on your hands. Did you catch your husband on the site? Adultwork gives people the chance to make money in a safe way. It is the people seeking the services who you should feel sorry for, not the people making money from it. Get a fecking life!

# 44:

3:52 am PDT, Aug 29, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
she says it as if there aren't men offering their services to women

# 43:

1:15 pm PDT, Aug 28, Mary Whitehouse, New York
You've got to wonder about the fool who set up this petition. What was she doing looking for prostitution websites??? And having found the website, she appears to have had a good trawl through it to see in detail what services are offered....she sounds like some psycho-pervert!

# 42:

1:56 pm PDT, Aug 24, Name not displayed, Alabama
Julie Dawn of Derby uk offers unprotected anal sex, half the prostitutes on this site offer bareback sex. HIV AIDS. Close down adultwork!!!!!

# 40:

12:25 pm PDT, Aug 23, Bill Williams, United Kingdom
I thought Mary Whitehouse was dead?! FFS grow up you simpleton. At least Adultwork takes it off the streets and gives these ladies an aspect of choice. I sincerely hope the puritans of this world die a premature, painful and protracted death.

# 39:

10:17 am PDT, Aug 22, Dan Dare, United Kingdom
There is no point in this petition since there are hundreds of sites which do the exact same thing. Close this one down and another will replace it within days!!!

# 38:

4:27 am PDT, Aug 22, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
hi I am one of the girls who advertising on adultwork ,far from degrading me it offers a very safe place in which to advertise .Yes what you say poss might go on but it would anyway .If you think you can stop these things by passing laws and closing down ad options then really dont be silly you cannot legislate peoples free choice away ,its my choice to be an escort I earn 6 figure sums and im more than happy to thats mine and the vast majority of other girls choice .Do you think closing one site down would help no it would not it would just force us further underground .Why not actually lobby parliment to totally legalise us thus de criminalising the whole industry ,making it more transparent and thus cutting out trafficing that way would be a lot more usefull.If men or women want to pay to see me and im happy to see them then thats our bussiness why should it affect you in any way unless you think that your morals and intelligence are so far superiour to ours that you should decide for us I THINK NOT im hurting no one least of all myself .

# 37:

3:03 am PDT, Aug 22, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
DONT CLOSE ADULTWORK DOWN!! they have every security in place some women out there has decided to put this petition together because she has had problems with her relationship ie her boyfriend or husbound has gone out with a escort girl Who ever put this petition together get on with your life and stop upsetting others okay!!

# 35:

10:51 am PDT, Aug 21, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Put it this way....... if there is a demand to shut adultwork down, then there are plenty more sites, and whats to say that adultwork will not reform as something else. People who have time to demand this are those who have nothing better to do. If people have had relationships broken because of this, then I feel for them, but you can't blame this site. You can only blame your partners, as they are the ones who seek these women, not vice versa. They can only contact people once details have been left by members of the public. For them to do so can only mean that all is not ok at home, to which people have got to ask themselves, what is going wrong??? In all fairness I share the same opnion as a lot of people on here, why waste your time petitioning against this, when this is unlikely to happen, and concentrate on sorting issues out within your own homes!!!!

# 33:

11:47 pm PDT, Aug 20, Becky Adultwork, United Kingdom
i cant see why this a problem this sie in fact takes young women off the street it would be a women who would make this petition i guess so i think ppl should get on with there life and stop making other people hell

# 32:

6:39 pm PDT, Aug 20, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Do not close down adultwork. For several reasons. Prostitution has existed for millenniums and will never stop. When consensual and the woman is not coerced than it is a matter between two consenting adults. Finally and most importantly, sites like adultwork offer invaluable intelligence to the authorities in their fight against sex trafficking. By closing it down, it will only remove an outlet where numbers, info and IP addresses can be gathered and used as needs be to fight the vile forced sex trade.

# 31:

3:33 pm PDT, Aug 20, James Mason, United Kingdom
regulate it, dont ban it dont send them back on the streets. All sex should be with condoms including oral, Theres male gigilloes on there too, most girls on it get huge wages much more than the guys, whilst many are unconcerned probably about wearing goods made by third world slaves. Most importantly it should be about sex surrogacy to help encourage relationships, I know disabled & v lonely people, who are not expoitative bastard, in fact many treat the girls far better than many boy or girlfriends

# 30:

12:58 pm PDT, Aug 20, Name not displayed, New Jersey
Adultwork should be closed down. I looked at this site and found the prostitutes are given a choice to state whether they offer unprotected sex or not, and quite disturbingly many are indeed offering unprotected sex. This site has a total disregard for public safety. This site should be closed down.

# 29:

12:31 pm PDT, Aug 20, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
I am signing to say i don`t agree with anyone that wishes to stop prostitution, the only way to sort anything in this world is to regualte and licene, not try and get rid of it, it will continue, but underground and the ones who continue will be far less safe than they are now. The people who try and stop prostitution have nothing but hatred for men, nothing more nothing less, Harriet Harman is one, Jackie Smith is another. You think you are helping women, but you are not, how on earth do you think all the prostitutes would get a normal job and do they even want a normal job NO, why because most love the job they do and the service they provide.

# 28:

11:54 am PDT, Aug 20, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
lmao how many women have you spoken to to get such a judgement, if the wives or girlfriends were able to pleasure there partners then there would be no need for prostitution in the first place, easy money for curing a sex drive which needs satisfiying, nothing put good sex thats probably being denied to them. I can understand a view of a parent that see's there loved child that they think is sweet and innocent, but really she earns a damn good living having sex with strangers, so no different to a one night stand and having all your drinks brought for you all night only this time your garunteed to get laid from a mans point of view and not be accused of rape when she regrets it because shes got what she wanted, good money to provide a good life for herself and her family. We all make our own choices in life and we just have to accept this is the way life is and by the way a prostitute working by herself in a flat is perfectly legal in this country

# 27:

8:51 am PDT, Aug 20, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
This site destroys lives and families. I know first hand

# 26:

4:44 am PDT, Aug 20, John Smith, United Kingdom
Im signing this so that I can comment on this ridculous petition obvioulsy created by a woman scorned/do gooder. Many women on the site use this site because they want to make money which by other means would be attainable. They are not drug abusers and they dont haveb "pimps" who make them do it. Many of them and all the ones I have seen do it because its a great way to make cash in a much safer way than street corners, brothels or with an agency who takes a cut. The site has a review system for the escorts AND the clients meaning that the meets are much safer and better organised. The comment regarding disease is also ridiculous. Safe sex is all I need to say and 99% of the escorts promote this and would never do anything themselves to ruin their own lives to which they cherish as much as any other person should. It is not sad or depressing to think of people using this service also. Many men or even women that use the site do so becasue they are single, have requirements or needs not met by other people they are with or have been with. Its natural to have desires and to supress desires could arguably result in illegal activities to get what they want ie rape. It isnt bad its just a choice

# 25:

5:27 am PDT, Aug 17, Happy Punter, United Kingdom
i have used the services of working ladies a few times over the years and found no problems with, trafficked,underaged, drugged,unwilling,degragded women you refer to maybe you should get a life of your own and leave other people to run thiers

# 24:

4:15 am PDT, Aug 17, Antigoni Georgiopoulou, Greece

# 23:

6:03 am PDT, Aug 16, Happy Whore, United Kingdom
When there are so many wives denying their husbands what they need sexually then come on for goodness sakes of course they will look elsewhere, whoops perhaps your hubby already has and that is why you all show such concern over what we grown women choose to do with our bodies. Look at your hubby and ask yourself when was the last time you gave yourself to him ?? If it was more than 2 months ago then you would probably be right in thinking he has already seen someone like myself who happens to be a normal woman not on drugs or pimped or on alchohol my only vice is enjoying the sex i get so handsomely paid for ...oh and by the way i am not signing this petition but just putting my voice out there as someone who is working it and enjoying it ;-)

# 22:

1:22 pm PDT, Aug 15, Dave Sprout, United Kingdom
*not signed*

# 21:

11:28 pm PDT, Aug 14, Prossie1 Loving it, United Kingdom
Oh please, do gooders who have absolutely nothing better to do with their time, how about you spend some time with your hubbies and children and then maybe your men would not need to seek out our services as you are such frigid old cows. What sad insignificant lives you must live to think that by signing a petition you can close down a website you close this one down another opens. So take a look in the mirror and see whether your lives are less a blemish or two. 98% of us love what we do and personally have no intention of quiting. So go for it!

# 16:

9:22 am PDT, Aug 11, I love Whores, California
What a complete load of bollocks

# 13:

9:22 am PDT, Aug 10, W Fuller, Massachusetts

# 12:

4:28 pm PDT, Aug 9, Samantha E. S., Minnesota

# 9:

12:52 pm PDT, Aug 5, Name not displayed, Finland

# 8:

2:34 am PDT, Aug 4, Jennie Halen, Sweden

# 7:

12:37 pm PDT, Aug 3, Catherine Gaspard, Belgium
I thought I had heard of the worst the web has to offer. Apparently not. This is the absolute pits. How is such filth allowed?

# 6:

6:22 am PDT, Aug 3, Karen Themelis, Massachusetts

# 5:

4:31 am PDT, Aug 3, Jamie Lee, California

# 4:

11:25 pm PDT, Aug 2, Name not displayed, Illinois

# 3:

11:16 pm PDT, Aug 2, Pam Boland, Georgia

# 2:

7:27 pm PDT, Aug 2, Feisty McLeod, Canada
I couldn't agree more. Let's take a stand on this issue. Prostitution is perhaps not an easy choice for the women who make it, but it is never a good choice for the women, who are exploited and degraded, or the men who become the users. We can help men and women to do better than prostitution.

# 1:

7:19 pm PDT, Aug 2, KRISTEN BREITWEG, Florida
theres not much i can even add or say about this, as mostly men do not care... its the wives at home that get the diseases .. and the kids all for daady or even mommies "OOPS" moment..

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