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Men are seen queuing up in the area's notorious red light district - where one worker was murdered then dumped in a wheelie bin and another had her teeth smashed out with a baseball bat. Men are seen queuing up Liverpool's notorious red light district - where one worker was murdered then dumped in a wheelie bin and another had her teeth smashed out with a baseball bat. I have nothing do with any of their money. I just watch their backs to be honest with you. At one point in the documentary he fends off an aggressive customer who refuses to leave a sex worker alone.
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He fled his hometown when his family disowned him for being gay. But many others put themselves at risk of harm.

It is early afternoon in east London, and Daniel has just finished his first appointment of the day. Sex workers sing own song in musical. Within a week, he had turned to sex work.
Sometimes clients who did not want to pay would lock him in their car, he says, and not let him out until he gave them their money back. Tyler now has a traditional job and does sex work only occasionally, advertising online. Some of these men see their work as a positive choice, but for the most vulnerable it can be little more than a means to survive.

The hub of Manchester's male street work scene is beneath the city's gay village, around Canal Street, on the canals that line the centre of the city, where The Men's Room does two night's outreach a week. According to its co-director Fergal McCullough, sex workers in this area are the most vulnerable - some are homeless, nearly all have very little money.

For Daniel, it is a safer way of offering services - he also refuses to participate in unsafe sex and "chem sex", which involves the use of drugs. Ms Speed fears that many sex workers - both children and adults - are being abused.
Tyler says many sex workers choose not to contact the authorities as they are "afraid that people are going to be like, 'Well, you're a sex worker, it's your own fault. Greater Manchester Police's Det Ch Supt Shaun Donnellan says the force is aware "male rape in particular is under-reported" and encourages any victims to come forward.

Such work was both illegal and dangerous. Ms Speed says many male sex workers do not take sexual assaults - including rape - seriously.

After dropping out of university a decade ago, he turned to sex work and has been doing it full time ever since. He says he was also raped at a hotel, after his drink was spiked. At the time of his alleged rape, he did not to go to the police.

She believes there has been a "normalisation of quite extreme behaviours", with many simply viewing this as "[par for] the course". Hayley Speed, who works for The Men's Room, one of only a handful of charities across the UK that supports these men, trying to keep them safe, says: "When we speak to sex workers about when they first got involved in sex work, the phrase we hear most often is, 'I started when I was 14 or 15,'" she says.
With no money, and not knowing anyone in the city, he became homeless.

Daniel says his clients usually fall between the ages of 35 and 85, and his price list includes anything from massages to sexual intercourse and overnight stays - which he advertises through apps and websites. Published 5 September Published 4 November Published 5 January What he is doing is legal.

In England, Wales and Scotland, sex work is illegal when someone is forced to sell themselves against their will, solicits for work on the street or keeps a brothel. He feared what they would do to him if he tried to leave, but says they were so confident he would not contact police that they just let him walk away.
