This post provides access to a handy downloadable PDF that rebuts some common myths and misinformation about the Nordic Model.
Topics covered:
- What is The Nordic Model?
- Neither full decriminalisation nor legalisation reduce the individual or wider societal harms associated with prostitution
- Safety, personal violence and homicide data
- Full decriminalisation and New Zealand
- Myth: The Nordic Model “drives the sex trade underground”
- Myth: There is a correlation between adoption of the Nordic Model and increases in human trafficking
- Autonomy and human rights
- Stigma and reducing demand
- Harms associated with prostitution.
- The exclusion of survivors and organisations which support them from consultations about prostitution and the sex industry.
- Wider implications of full decriminalisation
- Commonising costs and privatising profits – the case of the sex industry