Dr. Teresa Whitaker:

Representation is a difficult thing because we do not pretend to be elected by anybody. We are simply a group of voluntary workers that had concerns about prostitution and the people involved in it. There are organisations all over the world. For example, we have strong links with the UK Network of Sex Work Projects, the collective of prostitutes in New Zealand and international research organisations. People just come to us after seeing our website or after hearing me on the radio or the like. They simply contact us.

People who have been exploited and who are in difficult situations have also contacted us. In those situations we refer them to Ruhama. We are not trying to say there are no harms attached to prostitution. There are terrible harms involved. There is violence, rape, the spread of HIV and so forth. What we are saying is that we must tackle all those harms and violence.