It’s something that DC Nield agrees with: “We would love to get more intelligence that allows us to help male sex workers but we just don’t get any,” he says. And then there were brothels, in many cases operated with the tacit knowledge of the police as long as they were drug-free and didn’t use underage girls.

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Knowing the mental state of some of these young twerps, they're probably doing it to make it look as if they're concealing a 'shooter'.A ‘dodgy punters’ display board - sponsored by charity ‘Ugly Mugs’ - gives details of all the potentially dangerous people who could target sex workers in Manchester. Any premises may be classified as a brothel if it is used by more than one man or woman for the purpose of prostitution, either on the same day or on different days. Why do so many young guys walk around with hands down their pants as if they are playing with themselves, I often see groups of young guys walking around in busy High Streets doing this, they don't seem to care that thousands of people are walking past them and find it quite revolting really. He says sex work has always been connected to Manchester gay and cruising scenes and was concentrated around Canal Street, the Undercroft and Tariff Street although that has changed.

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Under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, it is an offence to cause or incite prostitution or control it for personal gain. As Helen says: “Women do not have to come here at all so they have to know that we are trustworthy. It may only be when they’re in crisis that they ask for help. For some people there is nowhere else they can go.” Pop up brothels. Survival sex. Slavery. There's a lot more to Manchester's sex trade in 2017 than the calling cards that used to line phone boxes a decade ago. And contrary to their female counterparts, male sex workers don’t answer to a pimp or work in saunas or brothels. They advertise online.Kerb-crawling is also banned, providing it can be shown the individual was causing a persistent annoyance.

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MASH, which supports sex workers across the city, helped 350 women last year. Over the last six months, the charity’s homelessness worker has managed to support 14 women in getting off the street and into housing. Though some of the women are rough sleepers many sofa surf, stay with punters or remain in abusive relationships. Police know the women by name and look out for them. But if I was to take them around Manchester they would not know who any of the lads are,” he says. Running a brothel, being raped while working as a prostitute, paying for sex - stories from the sex trade Romanian couple Alexe Popa and Gabriela Diac were last week convicted for operating pop-up brothels around south Manchester and employing Eastern European women as prostitutes.

He explains two of the very distinct problems - those working on the streets and those working in pop-up brothels. Popa, 30, organised the operation while Diac, 28, acted as a ‘telephone receptionist’ for potential customers from rented houses in Levenshulme, Longsight and Rusholme.