Letters: Why society is still failing prostitutes - The Guardian 23rd February 2007

In your front-page article (February 22) you refer to the five women murdered by Steve Wright as "sex workers", a term coined by those who claim that this is like any other job, and that women involved have choice about what they do. Yet, as the reports inside the paper show, Tania Nicol, Gemma Adams, Anneli Alderton, Annette Nicholls and Paula Clennell had not made a career choice to be "sex workers". They, like 95% of street prostitutes, were driven to it by their drug addiction. And like prostituted women in any setting, they faced a daily risk of violence from punters.

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