Britain's prostitution capital revealed in the daily star

[puntingking]

Britain's prostitution capital revealed as sex work is booming in these 20 areas (according to the daily star article)

Top 20 UK areas by concentration (sex workers per 100,000 residents)

Kensington and Chelsea (191)
City of Westminster (165)
Tower Hamlets (112)
Hillingdon (48)
Glasgow (47)
Newcastle upon Tyne (39)
Aberdeen City (39)
Bristol (37)
Edinburgh (36)
Antrim and Newtownabbey (36)
Cardiff (35)
Hammersmith and Fulham (33)
Birmingham (33)
Camden (32)
Kingston upon Thames (29)
Coventry (29)
Darlington (27)
Barnet (27)
Newham (27)
Croydon (26)


Full article can be read here -

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(February 2026)

[alabama1]

If you found this, why couldn't you find info on your previous post about HIV testing 

[DastardlyDick]

If you found this, why couldn't you find info on your previous post about HIV testing 

Maybe he's got an online subsription? 

[alabama1]

Maybe he's got an online subsription? 

Or maybe he just likes starting threads/ asking questions that he could very easily find the answer to, with a couple of clicks of the mouse 

[mr.bluesky]

I'd like to know how they arrive at these figures, what criteria do they use to get them . Door to door survey  questionaire posted through everyones letterbox   

[GoldTop]

Or maybe he just likes starting threads/ asking questions that he could very easily find the answer to, with a couple of clicks of the mouse 

Someone on my local thread asking about roadworks! 

[Mr Garmin]

Some bored hack spent a couple of hours putting locations into the AW search facility to come up with that load of old baloney.

[mr.bluesky]

Some bored hack spent a couple of hours putting locations into the AW search facility to come up with that load of old baloney.

Well it is the Daily Star, surprised it wasn't the Sunday Sport 

[anonymouse72]

No mention of Milton Keynes which is surprising. 107 AW profiles alone on an AW search. That's without Vivastreet and any agency girls.

[myothernameis]

No mention of Milton Keynes which is surprising. 107 AW profiles alone on an AW search. That's without Vivastreet and any agency girls.

What about Soho in London, would have thought this area would be included, as you can just walk in

[Massage Bloke]

What about Soho in London, would have thought this area would be included, as you can just walk in

Soho comes under City of Westminster, which is second on the list.

[Massage Bloke]

I'd like to know how they arrive at these figures, what criteria do they use to get them . Door to door survey  questionaire posted through everyones letterbox   

The research (such as it is!) was done by Solofun, a sex toys (for men) website. They looked at escort directories and the location of the SPs.

[Massage Bloke]

Well it is the Daily Star, surprised it wasn't the Sunday Sport 

It was in other newspapers. It was done by a sex toy firm called Solofun.

[signy]

No mention of Milton Keynes which is surprising. 107 AW profiles alone on an AW search. That's without Vivastreet and any agency girls.

That was my first thought.

[anonymouse72]

37ish per 100,000 for MK based on a quick calculation and that's just the 107 AW profiles.

[puntingking]

It was in other newspapers. It was done by a sex toy firm called Solofun.

 

[puntingking]

If you found this, why couldn't you find info on your previous post about HIV testing 

If you waited a bit longer I would have applied to this on the correct thread.
Don't be trolling me now 

Just because I have logged in and posted between these two threads, it doesn't mean I was blanking you on the correct thread. It just means I have not decided to read your response on that thread yet.

[puntingking]

Maybe he's got an online subsription? 

No I have not 

[puntingking]

I'd like to know how they arrive at these figures, what criteria do they use to get them . Door to door survey  questionaire posted through everyones letterbox   

I understand your take on this, but I suppose what criteria do they normally do to find other things out. 

[puntingking]

37ish per 100,000 for MK based on a quick calculation and that's just the 107 AW profiles.

Sometimes sps (most likely brothels) may use more than one aw profile to advertise their business so going by the adult work profiles is not a good system to work out how many sps they are in a particular area.

[puntingking]

Or maybe he just likes starting threads/ asking questions that he could very easily find the answer to, with a couple of clicks of the mouse 

or maybe not 

[DastardlyDick]

Sometimes sps (most likely brothels) may use more than one aw profile to advertise their business so going by the adult work profiles is not a good system to work out how many sps they are in a particular area.

That sex toy firm probably paid them to put it in.

[puntingking]

That sex toy firm probably paid them to put it in.

Maybe you're right, maybe you're not. There is no way to find this out. 
Although this news article from the Daily Star was also/can also be found on other news websites.   

[anonymouse72]

Sometimes sps (most likely brothels) may use more than one aw profile to advertise their business so going by the adult work profiles is not a good system to work out how many sps they are in a particular area.

Adultwork profiles were just a minimum number to gauge a comparison. As I said it doesn't include agency or Vivastreet profiles so the figure is likely higher although some VS account will also be for AW SPs.

[LLPunting]

Did they go by postcode given at yime of booking?  Did they go to postcode and meet the sp at the address then given?  More than a few ads are in adjacent areas,, VS especially.  Feckin shoddy "investigative journalism" done by wfh havks phoning it in from their sofas.

[Snipper]

Pleased to see Newcastle doing so well, but how can the northern outskirts of Belfast have more SPs pro rata than Birmingham, while Leeds apparently has none at all.

[Mr Garmin]

Pleased to see Newcastle doing so well, but how can the northern outskirts of Belfast have more SPs pro rata than Birmingham, while Leeds apparently has none at all.

It doesn't pass the sniff test does it?  It's a load of old made-up bollocks.

[puntingking]

Adultwork profiles were just a minimum number to gauge a comparison. As I said it doesn't include agency or Vivastreet profiles so the figure is likely higher although some VS account will also be for AW SPs.

 

[LauraHoD]

Im guessing this is just from the AW profiles. As others have pointed out there is no way of knowing the real numbers.

[mancsguy1975]

Very interesting read !

[puntingking]

Very interesting read !

indeed 

[Pillowtalk]

Pleased to see Newcastle doing so well, but how can the northern outskirts of Belfast have more SPs pro rata than Birmingham, while Leeds apparently has none at all.

It looks like a measurement of numbers per 100,000 of population, not absolute numbers. By my reckoning the City of London should be the highest. the resident population is only a few thousand and yet plenty of women work there, to ensnare the commuting red bracered city boys.

[Arripotter1971]

Makes me think I am not busy enough, I’ll never get around to doing all of them, but happy to try !!

[MaxVerstappen]

What a rubbish list. There is no way that Coventry makes the list and Leicester isn’t even featured in the list. Utter bollocks, the person who made up the list should actually do some punting.

[puntingking]

What a rubbish list. There is no way that Coventry makes the list and Leicester isn’t even featured in the list. Utter bollocks, the person who made up the list should actually do some punting.

I expect you are right

[alabama1]

I expect you are right

So why did you start this thread if you thought it was a load of bollocks 

[MaxVerstappen]

So why did you start this thread if you thought it was a load of bollocks 

Because he thinks that by starting loads of new topics he can eventually become a moderator in here. That’s his dream and life goal.

[puntingking]

So why did you start this thread if you thought it was a load of bollocks 

Because I now think the news article is more clickbait than anything else, which I possibly fell for.