Prices have gone down due to increased competition in the area (Picture: BBC)

Prostitutes are selling sex for as little as £4 in Liverpool, a new documentary claims.

The BBC Three documentary features interviews with sex workers in the city, which is thought to have more prostitutes than any UK city apart from London.

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It includes footage from Sheil Road – which was previously highlighted in a Liverpool Echo investigation into sex work.

Liam, who ensures the sex workers are safe, said: ‘Some of the girls give it away for £4.’


The drop in prices has been blamed on increased competition from eastern European women.

The documentary exposes the shocking life of sex workers in Liverpool (Picture: BBC)

But local women are determined to continue working ‘because they’re desperate to get crack’.



Liam said: ‘I’m not a pimp. I have nothing do with any of their money. They just buy me drinks, food, they don’t pay me.’

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Natalie, Liam’s ex-girlfriend, is one of the women working on Sheil Road, and does so to pay for her drug addiction.

She said: ‘Obviously I had to lower prices to get them there.

‘What’s normal to me is getting up, getting dressed and getting to have sex with a different man day in, day out.’

Jack, Natalie’s housemate, said: ‘It’s just because they’re battling for business – because they’re desperate to get crack.’

‘Sex Map of Britain’ can be watched on YouTube as well as BBC iPlayer.