Anybody watching 'Sex - My British Job' on now C4?

[SoleSource]

Looks like depressing viewing..

[SoleSource]

Nick Broomfield film.

[SoleSource]

Investgative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai goes undercover as a housekeeper in London brothels, unveiling the terrible reality of the British sex trade, in a film directed by Nick Broomfield.

[SoleSource]

I feel sick

[Foxred10]

Just desperately sad those poor desperate women. Am I the only one who can't believe how little they get paid?!

[TiddlerTiddler]

Had to turn it off. Couldn't watch anymore :(

[SoleSource]

Michelle is like a prisoner

[SnoopySnoopyDoggDogg]

Its awful, and for next to nothing. So degrading. Scary what they have come from to do this.

[SoleSource]

Calls her a cunt all of the time. Vile person.

[Whitershadeofpale]

It really is heartbreaking to watch. The pressure they are putting Hsiao-Hung under is awful you can imagine so easily other women caving in. I'm sure this is a well worn routine for Mary to isolate and humiliate women, it's the same dynamics you see in abusive relationships

[TheSlug]

Very upsetting :(

[LePetitPrince]

This is awful, isn't it? Looks like Finchley Tesco.. Did they say where it was set?

[SoleSource]

Mary is a cunt

[AnyFucker]

Yes, I have watched it (just a few mins to go)

[SoleSource]

Est. 3,000 brothels in London.

[SoleSource]

Utter scum

[bunchoffives]

I hope all the stupid women on mn who try and say that being a prostitute or working in the porn industry is a woman somehow asserting a feminist power or right to choose however she wants to be - or whatever other bollocks I've read on here - just so they needn't face up to the fact that their porn-watching partners are tossers - I just hope they are all watching this and thinking again.

Sex workers and porn workers are exploited abused women who need help. Men who go to prostitutes or who watch porn are helping to perpetuate the exploitation and abuse of women - and children.

[AnyFucker]

Yes, it is Finchley

Being repeated on ch. 4+ 1 if anyone still wants to stomach it

[aturtlenamedmack]

Oh it was just awful.
Mary knew exactly what to say to get what she wanted. I think any woman who had really been in that position would have caved in very early on.
It was her saying that she wasn't a real mother and that she wasn't providing for her child. It was so awful and cruel.
I think that Mary felt that Hsaio-hung almost had something over her by refusing to do sex work.

[Fairydust1986]

Deeply uncomfortable viewing, these are hardly empowered women having to sleep with some smelly vile man just so she can pay her smuggler or feed her family.

[Whitershadeofpale]

I got the impression that Hsaio-Hung refusing to be prostituted upset Mary as she felt that Hsaio-Hung believed herself to be superior or better than her.

Although its completely understandable that the nature of the undercover documentary meant that we only saw that microcosm of the industry it would have been very interesting to have learnt more about the massive debts the women all seemed to have to traffickers, and their involvement in the sex trade industry.

[SoleSource]

aturtle I think that Mary felt that Hsaio-hung almost had something over her by refusing to do sex work.

Yes I felt this too.

[SinisterSal]

god this is horrible

[YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar]

I can't believe that disgusting man. He pissed everywhere then expected a discount. [Angry]
What a brave lady she was. At least she got to confront her (and her scuzzy leech of a "boyfriend"). It won't stop her though. She's an abusive pimp.

[Fairydust1986]

Did they go to the police with this footage? No. Did they say they were going to do anything? No. Who cares eh? So long as channel 4 get the ratings then fuck the poor bitches. Smh