Porcelain Victoria

MISTRESS VICTORIA🩵 BEST SCOTTISH MISTRESS 2024 🎀07946840021 🩷 CHAMELEON DOMME 💛 LIFESTYLER/PRO🌹Co-Host of @behindthepaddle

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

I am raising funds to cover legal costs after my work space was raided by Police Scotland in connection with an allegation of brothel keeping a case that was later dropped due to lack of evidence.

Nearly 2yrs ago, I operated a small, safety focused establishment where I both worked and occasionally rented a room to other independent sex workers. It was a clean, controlled environment a place to work free from harassment, violence, or fear. This was my workplace.

Despite this, my business was raided by more than 20 police officers armed with a battering ram, treating it as though it were a criminal operation. The police appeared to have already decided I was running a brothel, despite there being no evidence of harm, coercion, or trafficking.

I was arrested and held in a police cell for six hours. During this time, I was treated harshly and without compassion. When I expressed fear about being unable to pay my bills and support my child, an officer laughed at me and said, “Looks like your pockets won’t be so flush.” My livelihood was ripped away, and my ability to care for my family was thrown into uncertainty.

Without my knowledge, the police also contacted social services. I only found out when they arrived at my door the very next day. I was terrified. After the way the police had treated me, I genuinely feared my child could be taken from me.

At the time, I was renting out a room to independent sex workers as a harm-reduction space a safer alternative to working alone, on the street, or in unsafe environments. No one was being exploited. No one was being controlled. It was about safety, dignity, and survival.

Despite this, police carried out a highly visible raid. They seized my phone, my smart home devices, and even all the condoms on the premises. My neighbours and my clients were exposed. My privacy, reputation, and safety were torn apart. Brothel keeping is a serious offence that carries the risk of 7 years in prison, meaning I was suddenly facing the possibility of losing everything.

The case was later dropped. No charges remain. No wrongdoing was proven. But my record still stained.

But the damage did not end when the case was closed.

Since the raid, I have lived with panic attacks, PTSD symptoms, sleep disturbance, depression, self conscious issues,hyper vigilance, and a constant fear of someone knocking at my door. My income collapsed. My reputation was damaged. My sense of safety in my own home was destroyed. Every day still feels like I am waiting for something terrible to happen.

I am now seeking legal advice to challenge not just the investigation itself, but the way the police used their powers the disproportionate, invasive, and harmful way this was carried out. I believe my rights to privacy, dignity, and safety under the Human Rights Act were breached.

This is not just about me.

Across the UK, sex workers and those who try to create safer working conditions are routinely targeted under brothel keeping laws, even when no exploitation exists. These laws punish harm reduction and push people into more dangerous, isolated situations.

Right now in Scotland, sex workers are also fighting against the Nordic Model a system that has been shown internationally to increase harm, violence, and stigma. Police Scotland supports this model, and that makes this fight even harder and longer. Sex workers deserve to be able to work together for safety without the threat of arrest, raids, or family separation.

I am asking for support to help cover:
��� Court and filing fees
• Advocacy and accountability work related to this case

Every contribution helps me take a stand against harmful policing and defend the right to safety, privacy, and dignity.

If you can’t donate, please share and support sex worker led organisations doing vital work, including:
• SWARM
• National Ugly Mugs
• English Collective of Prostitutes

Thank you for reading, for sharing, and for standing with me financially or in solidarity.

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@LetAlbaFlourish @LucyHunterB Not by you, but while I have you here would love to know why two women still won’t be able to work together for safety under the Nordic model even though Ash Regan proclaims it will “decriminalise” the sex workers 🙃

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@LucyHunterB Sex trafficking is when you don’t consent.

Sex worker is when you do consent.

Let’s sort out our poverty issues before coming for women who pay the bills through sex work

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

There actually isn’t reliable Scotland-specific data that breaks down sex workers by “setting” and tracks where income flows in the way you’re describing. Most available figures come from small samples, police-led research, or NGO reports that don’t capture independent workers, which make up a significant proportion of indoor sex work.

Where research does exist, it shows that many people working indoors in Scotland are self-employed and retain the majority of their earnings, particularly when working independently or cooperatively. The idea that large proportions of income routinely go to “backroom” third parties doesn’t reflect the reality for many workers, especially since advertising platforms replaced traditional agencies.

If single mothers are relying on sex work to achieve a livable income, that points to failures in childcare, housing, and wage policy not evidence that criminalising clients improves women’s economic security.

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

Scotland child payment great that it’s there but you have to be eligible sadly some people aren’t. Every little helps but you have to also be realistic when it comes to weekly payments of £27.15 especially in the rising living costs that’s not even going to be enough to do a food shop.

The Nordic Model takes away so much earnings and puts sex workers in danger. Women who consent to sex work.

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

Any idea why I’ve been blocked by both and why @LetAlbaFlourish didn’t support or anyone of the unbuyable bill didn’t support me when I was charged with brothel keeping working together for safety with another sex worker which will still be a jailable offence for upto 7yrs and fines. They have ignored me and even accused me of profiting off of abuse. If it doesn’t fit their views or agenda they discard you. They don’t care about women and it certainly isn’t feminism

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@MenVSexism You have your list.

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@LucyHunterB We need to be focusing on getting free childcare, housing, food banks, healthcare rather than taking away earnings from said single mums

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

These convictions do not make anyone safer. They punish women, migrants, trans people, and working class people for surviving. Quashing them is necessary justice.

You want sex workers to exit sex work ? Then make it possible by squashing convictions.

In principle, support is important. In practice, I have little faith this will be delivered.

During the pandemic, the government had an emergency “hardship fund for sex workers” existed, but sex workers could not access it or even was sure it applied to them. Many sex workers felt unable to apply because it forced them to out themselves to local authorities, risking police or immigration consequences, or involvement from social services. If you’re a single mother, you can understand that risk is too great.

Furthermore, there’s no evidence that Fife Council ever extended that fund to sex workers specifically. According to their public information like the Scottish Welfare Fund general hardship funding exists, but nothing targeted at sex workers has been documented in Fife. This gap demonstrates just how inconsistent and inaccessible these “support” schemes were across regions.

Those of us shut out of official aid turned to grassroots funds, like those run by Umbrella Lane, SWARM, and other sex worker-led groups, for our basic survival.

The Bill’s support clauses offer no detail on funding, delivery, or inclusivity and may be conditional on exit from sex work. That is not support it’s coercion.

The Bill makes vague promises of help but offers no detail on funding, no guarantees, and no protections against conditionality. Too often, support services are tied to mandatory “exit.” As a single mother, I know that I sometimes need income and flexibility that sex work provides. If support is only available on the condition that I stop sex work, it is not genuine support.

The promise of “exit strategies” under the Nordic Model has failed everywhere:
•Sweden: Exit services promised in 1999 were never delivered. Instead, money went into policing. No comprehensive housing, healthcare, or job programmes exist.
•France: A financial aid scheme was announced, but Médecins du Monde found that in the first two years, only 62 people nationwide accessed it. The criteria were so strict that almost no one qualified.
•Ireland & Northern Ireland: Amnesty International and SWAI have confirmed that exit services are essentially non-existent.

Scotland already faces housing shortages, underfunded mental health services, and restricted legal aid. Unless the government is prepared to properly fund these things for everyone not just conditionally for sex workers this clause will be meaningless.

This Bill (Ash Regans) ignores lived experiences. I was criminalised under Section 11(5) of the 1995 Act simply for working with another women for safety and having a property for them to safely work out of. That charge showed me how Scotland’s laws punish survival strategies. Criminalising clients will double down on that harm.

The greatest dangers will fall on the most marginalised:
•Street and survival workers pushed further into dangerous areas.
•Migrant workers fearing both police and immigration enforcement.
•Trans and non-white workers facing compounded discrimination and racial profiling.
•Single mothers like me, left with no safe way to provide for their children.

Police abuse is already a serious issue in Scotland. A 2022 review found

“Others explicitly linked Police Scotland’s internal culture with how crimes are responded to in the community. Some went as far as to state that some units and divisions actively stalled investigations of gendered crime or did not act in accordance with what was expected because of the pervasiveness of sexist and misogynist attitudes they collectively held.”

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

The Bill proposes to criminalise the purchase of sexual services.

I strongly oppose the criminalisation of clients.

I have already been criminalised under Scottish law I was charged with brothel keeping under Section 11(5) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995, i owned a flat which I used as a working premise where I allowed other sex workers to work safely in a safe controlled environment absolutely by their own accord. This law treats even two women sharing space as “keeping a brothel.” There was no exploitation no trafficking no one being hurt or forced. We were only trying to protect ourselves.

As a single mother, this charge put my livelihood and my child’s stability at risk. Instead of protecting me, the law punished me for working safely while supporting my family.

If clients are criminalised as well, the situation will become even more dangerous. Research from countries with the Nordic Model shows
•Ireland: Violent attacks on sex workers rose by 220% in the two years after the law. 92% of workers surveyed said they felt less safe.
•Research in Sweden, Finland, and Norway in 2022 found that Nordic Model legislation was a smokescreen for punitive and racialised policing where sex workers were targeted for deportations and evictions.
•Northern Ireland: Amnesty International found no reduction in demand but clear increases in risk.
•France: Criminalised clients in 2016. Medecins du Monde’s 2018 report found that since the law was introduced: 63% of sex workers have experienced deterioration of their living conditions, more isolation and greater stress; 42% are more exposed to violence (sexual violence, theft, and armed robbery); 38% have found it increasingly hard to demand use of condoms.
•Amnesty International’s 2022 report found the law “purportedly designed to protect human trafficking victims and sex workers from exploitation is instead facilitating the targeting and abuse of sex workers. . . ”

The people hit hardest will be street sex workers, survival sex workers, migrants, trans sex workers, and non white sex workers groups already facing the sharpest edges of policing, poverty, and discrimination. Criminalising clients will not stop sex work it will make it more violent, more secretive, and more deadly.

The Bill proposes to repeal section 46 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (loitering/soliciting offences).

I support repeal. Section 46 has always targeted the poorest, most marginalised workers especially street workers.

While my own charge was under brothel keeping law, I have seen how prostitution related offences destroy trust in the police. Landlords can already be prosecuted under the 1995 Act for “permitting premises to be used as a brothel,” which forces many sex workers into homelessness. Partners have been criminalised under “living off immoral earnings” laws my partner at the time was charged with this, even when they were simply supporting or living with us. These ripple effects destabilise whole households, including children.

Umbrella Lane’s 2021 research showed that 48% of sex workers in Scotland did not report crimes against them because of fear or distrust of the police. For migrant, trans, and non white workers, that fear is even greater.

Repealing section 46 is a step forward but the deeper problem is that criminalisation in any form only drives us further from safety.

I strongly support quashing sex worker convictions.

A criminal record ruins lives. It blocks access to jobs (through Disclosure and Barring Service checks), housing, and even custody of children. For migrant sex workers, it can lead to detention or deportation.

As someone charged under brothel keeping law, I know the heavy stigma and fear that comes with being branded a criminal. As a single mother, I have lived with the fear that my charge could be used against me to question my ability to care for my child.

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@LucyHunterB We do screen clients 🙃🙃

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@LucyHunterB SfD is volunteer run.
We supported other grassroots.

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@SexIndustryResC @AmarettoRory @AshReganMSP STOP ADDING STIGMA

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@Invisime101 @AmarettoRory @AshReganMSP Hey so I actually wouldn’t be able to afford to pay my bills if this came into play so yeah thanks for not doing any research in what your supporting or asking active sex workers what they want ✌🏻

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@scummyman94 @sxjay2 @AshReganMSP Also they aren’t false statements he made

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@scummyman94 @sxjay2 @AshReganMSP It literally ass stigma asking this question in such a negative manner. Which obviously will worsen the stigma for the women who do sex work

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@elainewebster21 @AshReganMSP 👎👎👎👎

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@griffo44374 @AshReganMSP She’s no.

[Porcelain Victoria @MistressPD]

@BrokenAndBrkAgn @AshReganMSP @sxjay2 Oh my lord stop adding stigma to the sex industry, it’s very clear the people who want this bill do not care what stigma they produce !