Documentary Analysis: Sheil Road

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or my activity i watched "Selling Sex For £4 In Liverpool | Sex Map Of Britain". The documentary was filmed on Sheil Road, which is a poverty/drug ridden area of Liverpool where people are desperate for money.The price of sex keeps decreasing as immigrants come asking for lower rates and many girls accept the offer driving down the market price. These women see no other option, but selling themselves to survive.These women also face intense violence including death form their clients and many resort to a volunteer run safe haven van for protection. They suffer great emotional problems such as depression because of how they are viewed as sex objects rather than people. The film focuses on Natalie who in order to fund her crack-cocaine addiction

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