We have more newsletters. Sex workers in Cambridge have said they work in pairs for safety reasons - but it is technically illegal. The sex trade in the city appears to be booming and the number of pop-up brothels uncovered in the area more than doubled in two years. A total of 26 of the sex establishments were identified by police last year — which is up from 17 in and 11 the previous year.
Flats in Cambridge are being rented to use as pop-up brothels or by lone sex workers and the new CB1 area has been highlighted as one area used by sex workers, as the News reported. It can get quite frightening but at least if there is two of us one of us can call the police.
Operation Mantis, which has been rolled out across the county, is when police make contact with women in the sex trade to make sure they are not being exploited and are safe.
Specially trained officers check on the welfare of the women and gather intelligence if they are being exploited in the war against modern day slavery. Maria said: "The police did come to visit us and they were fantastic. They said that we could call them if we need to. We do not have pimps and we know that is illegal.
Some of the girls do. We don't want a pimp. We are independent. The pimps just take the girls' money and do nothing. Sometimes the men are dirty and won't even take a shower even when we offer it to them.
