Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights Thank you for subscribingSee our privacy notice Invalid Email More than women and almost 40 men are advertising sex for money in Plymouth via a controversial website dubbed the "Gumtree of prostitution".
Members of AdultWork. In total, women and 38 men are listed on the website advertising a range of 'services'. The figures come amid concerns over 'pop-up brothels' across Plymouth and the rest of Devon and Cornwall. A search of the AdultWork website reveals men and women advertising escorting services across the city including in Devonport, Stonehouse, Stoke and the city centre.
Read More Named and shamed: thugs and thieves who have faced Plymouth magistrates As reported by Cornwall Live , a government report last year found that a small number of firms were fuelling a boom in the brothels across the country, concluding that prostitution procurement websites were "the most significant enabler of sex-trafficking in the UK".
The largest concern of sites such as AdultWork is that they allow traffickers to control the profiles of sex workers and effectively find clients for those under their control. The Government also believes that these sites have made it lucrative for criminals to set up short-term brothels. Girls are brought to a city for a short amount of time where they then see clients, after which they are taken to a new city and the cycle continues.
AdultWork is a website where people offer sexual services in exchange for money Image: AdultWork. Sites such as AdultWork and also Vivastreet make money from this, as they charge for sex workers to place adverts rather than charging those who make use of them.
