Based on her 20 years in New Zealand’s brothels, Chelsea Geddes gives the lowdown on how ‘sex work decrim’ works in practice. Read More
On #DECRIM: Chelsea Geddes on New Zealand’s decriminalised prostitution system
Israel: A big step forward in the support offered to survivors of prostitution
Luba Fein writes from Israel about an enlightened change in their social security system that will help prostitution survivors access disability benefits more easily and with dignity. Read More
We must stop promoting the idea that men have the right to sexual access to women & girls
Now that the grooming of girls to be sexual and ‘porn ready’ starts so young, the dominance of the ‘sex work is real work’ ideology is catastrophic, especially for girls and young women from the most marginalised communities. Read More
The mass grooming of girls and young women for the sex industry starts in earliest childhood and ends with the monetisation of young women themselves
The dangers of Onlyfans and ‘sugar dating’ and how young women are groomed and lured into these newer and emerging forms of prostitution and pornography. Read More
The reality of New Zealand’s decriminalised sex trade
Chelsea Geddes draws on her more than 20 years in New Zealand’s legal brothels, to explain how the full decrim prostitution system works out in practice. Read More
Feminism and Prostitution: Beyond ‘The Happy Hooker’
The text of Professor Robert Jensen’s brilliant speech at the ‘Students for sale: Tools for resistance’ conference in London on 15 October 2022. Read More
PRESS RELEASE: “Students for Sale”: How the ‘sex work is real work’ slogan risks damaging our young people.
All you need to know about Nordic Model Now’s ‘Students for sale’ conference on 15 October: aims, speakers, where to get tickets, press contact, etc. Read More
The story of Eurydice, the first grassroots initiative against sex trafficking in Russia
Women from the Eurydice feminist collective in Novosibirsk, Siberia, explain why they formed their group and the progress they have made in raising awareness against the sexual exploitation industry and supporting survivors. Read More
The only way to reduce the sexual exploitation facilitated by commercial sex websites is to shut them down
Esther, sex trade survivor and activist, explains the institutional failure exposed by the decision of the NPCC and the National Crime Agency to collaborate with the University of Leicester in “research” into how websites that facilitate sexual exploitation can “address” sexual exploitation. Read More
Another sex trade propaganda project from Leicester University
Professor Teela Sanders, who was behind the Leicester ‘student sex work toolkit’ is leading a new publicly funded project “to examine how websites which promote and/or facilitate sex work can address sexual exploitation”. In this article we argue that these websites are corporate pimps and need closing down – not legitimising by misguided “research”. Read More
‘Sex work is a special hell that men have created for women’
A woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent this powerful and harrowing piece in through our Share Your Story page, which provides a space for women to tell of their experiences of the sex trade in their own words. Read More
‘Students for sale’ conference: A chance to connect in person, and more
Not sure whether to come along to our ‘Students for Sale’ conference on Saturday 15 October? Lynne Walsh explains what you’d be missing… Read More
UK Government consultation on public sexual harassment
Our response to the government’s consultation on public sexual harassment – which you can copy or use as inspiration. The consultation closes on 1 September 2022. Read More
Pornography as crime scene videos: Suzzan Blac discusses her Pornhub research
Suzzan Blac explains why she spent years investigating the pornography that is available to anyone (including kids) for free on Pornhub and the disturbing reality that she found. Read More
Suzzan Blac discusses her life, trauma and extraordinary art
Suzzan Blac introduces a selection of the extraordinary paintings she did as a way of processing the sexual abuse she suffered as a child and young adult, and as a sex trafficking victim in the pornography industry. Read More
‘I have epilepsy. Punters would shag me when I was fitting.’
I was forced into prostitution by my partner – I funded his drink habit.
I have epilepsy and would frequently fit – that made him more money. Punters would shag me when I was fitting… Read More
Sex (mis)education in schools
Sex education in schools, although compulsory in the UK, is often appalling. Children need to be told the truth about porn and prostitution. Read More
Leicester University confirms it has withdrawn its ‘student sex work toolkit’
Leicester University has responded to our FOI request confirming that it has withdrawn its ‘student sex work’ toolkit and training. Yasmin Quayyum, NMN Campaigns Manager, gives a brief summary of the campaign. Read More
Last Girl First! A book review
A review of ‘Last Girl First! Prostitution at the intersection of sex, race & class-based oppressions’, which provides cast iron evidence that everywhere in the world, it is overwhelmingly the most marginalised women and girls who end up trapped in the prostitution system. Read More
BODY SHELL GIRL by Rose Hunter: A review
A review of Rose Hunter’s brilliant and moving book, ‘Body Shell Girl’, which takes us into the massage parlours, brothels and other dark places of her first two years in the sex industry. Read More
Supporting the pimp lobby so it doesn’t come for your children
Prostitution survivor, Esther, talks about the Killing Kittens “sex parties” she used to be paid to attend and explains that they were in fact brothels. She asks whether the social connections of the facilitators are a factor in the police ignoring them. Read More
The launch of the NMN Handbook for Universities
An edited transcript of our November 2021 webinar to launch the Nordic Model Now! Handbook for Universities, featuring Professor Kathleen Richardson and survivors, Lily and Andrea Heinz. Read More
Statement on Unison ending its support for the Nordic Model
Unison has formally dropped support for the Nordic Model, but that’s not the end of the story. Now’s the time to mobilise against full decrim. Read More
Why the labour and trade union movement should support the Nordic Model
Audio and video recordings of our ‘Why the labour and trade union movement should support the Nordic Model’ webinar that was held on 7 June 2022. Read More
Trauma and Prostitution: The transcript
A transcript of our Trauma and Prostitution webinar from June 2021, featuring Dr Ingeborg Kraus, clinical psychologist and expert in psychotraumatology, and Merly Åsbogård and Rebecca Mott, both survivors of prostitution. Read More
Unison National Delegate Conference 2022: Say NO to Motion 55 ‘For Safety – End Support for the Nordic Model’
This article unpicks Unison Delegate Conference 2022 Motion 55 showing that it’s misleading and relies on poor-quality research. We strongly recommend voting AGAINST this motion. Read More
Challenging the ‘Sex work is work’ narrative
Audio and video recordings of our Challenging the ‘Sex work is work’ narrative webinar that was held on 24 April 2022. Read More
FFS Unison, join the dots between the endless ways men make women’s lives a misery and the industry that commercialises such behaviour.
A heartfelt plea to Unison to not abandon its 12-year support for the Nordic Model at its National Delegate Conference in Brighton in June. Read More
Surrogacy in the UK
Elizabeth Purslow’s talk at the ‘Equality between men and women and the choice to become a surrogate mother’ webinar on 19 March 2022, organised by the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood (CIAMS). Read More
The University of Leicester reveals its “student sex work” project is a “substantial commercial” opportunity
Not content with grooming young women to accept a life of sexual use and young men to accept a life as sexual predators, Leicester University also wants to profit from that. Read More