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MPs Move to Ban Websites That Promote Prostitution

Grass Monster, June 20, 2025

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Digital Pimps Beware – MPs Move to Ban Websites That Promote Prostitution

In a political move that some hail as moral clarity and others see as a digital minefield, Members of Parliament have laid down a bold challenge to the age of online exploitation: they want to ban websites that profit from prostitution.

Sixty cross-party MPs have tabled an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill that would make it illegal to host or operate websites which advertise, promote, or enable the buying of sex. In effect, they are aiming at the tech-savvy middlemen – not the women, not the clients, but the platforms turning misery into a business model.

This is not about banning sex work itself. In the UK, selling sex is not a crime. But arranging it, advertising it, or profiting from someone else’s vulnerability? That’s another matter – and it’s now under the microscope.

Campaigners have long argued that the web has become a digital back alley – but without the flickering streetlight. Sites openly host thousands of sex adverts. The sellers are often women under financial duress. Some are victims of coercion or trafficking. The buyers? Anonymous. Untraceable. Enabled.

The proposed amendment draws on inspiration from France and Ireland, where the so-called “Nordic model” shifts legal pressure away from those selling sex and squarely onto the shoulders of those buying – or profiting from – it.

This is where the UK is now headed: toward a legal strike on the middlemen.

Not everyone is on board. Critics warn that banning these websites could drive prostitution underground, making it more dangerous. Some sex workers’ rights groups argue that visibility, however flawed, offers a layer of safety that vanishes in the shadows.

But supporters say this isn’t about criminalising sex workers. It’s about asking why billion-pound tech operations are allowed to line their pockets off the backs of women who often have no other choice.

There is, quite simply, no other business in the UK where an online ad for a human being is met with a shrug.

This amendment won’t solve everything. But it signals a shift – that Parliament is no longer willing to let the internet act like a digital pimp.

The message is loud, and finally, it’s being heard in the Commons.

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