Nordic Model Now! offers talks, workshops, and educational engagements in schools, universities, and groups and organisations.
Our speakers include survivors of sexual exploitation who are well placed to explain the realities of the modern sexploitation industries and the pressures and harms that pornography and prostitution entail.
Our speakers are passionate advocates for empowering young people to navigate sexual relationships in an informed, positive and healthy way.
Please contact us at education@nordicmodelnow.org if you’d like to find out more or to discuss making a booking.
Universities
We welcome invitations to speak at universities, including women’s, feminist, free speech, and debating societies.
We can speak to a range of topics around the Nordic Model, including the research, and the legal and policy concepts relating to it, as well as issues like the impact of pornography, consent and healthy sexual relationships.
Topics that may be particularly relevant to universities include the enormous growth in young women engaging in adult content sharing platforms such as OnlyFans and the pressures on young women to enact violent and degrading sexual behaviour.
Organisations
We welcome invitations to speak to organisations and groups, including, for example, political, trade union, community, women’s, and faith-based groups.
If your organisation is involved in supporting women who have experienced sexual exploitation, we can also offer more tailored information sessions and advice about the ways in which women may have been affected and benefit from support.
Schools
If you are a teacher or parent, or pupil aged 16 or above, and you would like us to come and speak at your school, please get in touch with us or share our details with your school’s PSHE contact.
Our range of educational sessions include talks and workshops tailored to mixed sex or single sex groups of pupils from age 16 and above, covering RSE topics relating to “online and media”, “being safe” and “intimate and sexual relationships” in accordance with government guidance.
The topics that we can cover include the following.
Pornography
- The ways in which pornography presents a distorted picture of sexual behaviours, and the messages being learned from watching certain types of content.
- The harms which pornography can cause, including that it can damage the way people see themselves in relation to others and negatively affect how they behave towards sexual partners.
- Objectification, including pornified images in the media more generally.
- Image-based abuse, ‘revenge porn’, and the implications of sharing sexually explicit content of oneself or others.
Sexuality and consent
- The concepts of, and laws relating to sexual consent and sexual exploitation.
- Setting and respecting sexual boundaries
- How people can actively communicate and recognise consent from others, including sexual consent, and how and when consent can be withdrawn (in all contexts, including online).
The sex industry more widely
- The legal position on prostitution in the UK, and how prostitution is connected to pornography.
- The ways in which exploitation and abuse are involved in the sex industry and pornography production.
- What the Nordic Model is, and how it offers an alternative approach to the current legal and policy position.
Intimate and sexual relationships
- How to recognise the characteristics and positive aspects of healthy one-to-one intimate relationships, which include mutual respect, consent, loyalty, trust, shared interests and outlook, sex and friendship.
- That there are a range of strategies for identifying and managing sexual pressure, including understanding peer pressure, resisting pressure and not pressuring others.
- That they have a choice to delay sex, to enjoy intimacy without sex, and to set personal boundaries around pornography use in relationships.
Please contact us at education@nordicmodelnow.org if you’d like to find out more or to discuss making a booking.