This page provides to links to useful articles and research (mostly) on other websites. However, it is not regularly kept up to date.
How the harms of prostitution are invisible
The Nordic Model
- 10 myths about prostitution, trafficking and the Nordic model
- The Nordic Model is not de facto criminalization
- Norway’s closely watched prostitution ban works, study finds
- New research shows violence decreases under Nordic model
Arguments against legalisation/decriminalisation of the sex trade
- “Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart”: Prostitution Harms Women Even if Legalized or Decriminalized
- Legalizing Prostitution Leads to More Trafficking
- If full decriminalization will protect women in prostitution from these men… why do these men want it?
Sweden
- Swedish Laws, Policies and Interventions on Prostitution and Trafficking in Human Beings: A Comprehensive Overview
- The Swedish Approach to Prostitution and Trafficking in Human Beings Through a Gender Equality Lens
- The Swedish Sex Purchase Law: evidence of its impact
- Prostitution Policy in Sweden: Targeting Demand
Ireland
- The SERP Institute: Statement on the Review on the Operation of Section 7A of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act
- Shifting the Burden of Criminality: An analysis of the Irish sex trade in the context of prostitution law reform (Full report)
- Shifting the Burden of Criminality: An analysis of the Irish sex trade in the context of prostitution law reform (Summary)
- Gender Equality and Sexual Consent in the Context of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Reports from Germany
- The German model is producing hell on earth!
- Legalization has turned Germany into the ‘Bordello of Europe’ and we should be ashamed
- Frankfurt: Turning a Red Light District into Disneyland
- Berlin brothel bust reveals job hypocrisy: Mallick
- If you think decriminalisation will make prostitution safe, look at Germany’s mega brothels
- Data on women in prostitution in Germany: numbers, health, working conditions
- Speech by Helmut Sporer, Detective Chief Superintendent of the Crimes Squad, Augsburg
Why prostitution isn’t work
- Why Sex Work Isn’t Work
- On comparing Coal Mining and Prostitution
- Prostitution Is Not Just Another Job
- German psychologists and the scientific case against prostitution
- Women Rights, Wage Labour and Sexual Exploitation: A Labour Law Analysis of ‘Sex Work’
- What happens to women who sell sex? Report of a unique occupational cohort
Responses to the Left
- THE LEFT’S LOVE OF PROSTITUTION – AN OPEN LETTER FROM EXITED WOMEN
- A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work”
- Unearthing The Hypocrisy Of The ‘Pro-Prostitution Left’
- Marx and prostitution
- Misogyny is Revisionism Part 2: The Masque of the “Red” Pimp
- Prostitution and ways of fighting it by Alexandra Kollontai
- Why do Marxist feminists oppose liberal feminists’ claims that porn and prostitution are liberating for women?
- ‘Why socialists should oppose the sex industry’ by Emma Norton
The New Zealand Approach
- Review of the Decriminalisation Model in New Zealand
- So You Wanna Talk “Sex Work” Policy? The Failure of Full Decrim According to Māori Women
- Working in a New Zealand brothel was anything but ‘a job like any other’
- Speech delivered at The World’s Oldest Oppression conference, Melbourne 2016
- Breaking the silence on prostitution and rape culture
- Why the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective shouldn’t get the first and final say on prostitution
- CATWA’s page on New Zealand
- Unethical practices produce New York Times’ ‘sex work’ story
- New report says NZ ‘destination’ for forced labour, sex trafficking
- New Zealand, Germany: decriminalization and legalization, trafficking and sustainability. And smoke screens
- Gatekeeping Decriminalization of Prostitution: The Ubiquitous Influence of the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective
Belgium
Survivors’ letters and interviews
- Prostitution survivor to pro-lobby: I’m sick and tired of you!
- The Underbelly of the Sex-Trade Industry
- Trafficking Survivor Letters to Amnesty International USA
- Letter to sex buyers from a Danish survivor of prostitution
- DANISH SURVIVORS: “SELLING YOURSELF IS DEGRADING, VIOLENT AND UNFREE”
- Sonia Sánchez – ‘No woman is born a whore’
- Prostitution Survivor Alika Kinan: The Battle for Justice at the End of the World
- Inside Outside Scotland
- Selling Sex and Addiction
Comparisons of the different approaches
- Prostitution Policy: Legalization, Decriminalization and the Nordic Model
- Prostitution: lessons from Europe’s streets
- Choosing the Nordic Model
- Disrupt Demand
Prostitution and trafficking
- Pornography, Prostitution, & Trafficking: Making the Connections
- Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality
- Discouraging the demand that fosters trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation
Prostitution and racism
- Thinking Danger: Pornography Revisited
- Prostitution: Where Racism and Sexism Intersect
- Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women
- Real change for aboriginal women begins with the end of prostitution
- The Problem with Sex Trade Expansionary Feminism
- Challenging “Sex Work” Assumptions: Beyond the Fetishization of Asian Women’s Bodies
- Roots of the Crisis
- Prostitution Is a Racialized Hate Crime Against Women
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem
- Prostitution and violence against women and girls
- Position paper: lessons learned from the implementation of exit programs for women in prostitution
- Response to a Political Critique and Personal Attack Against a United Nations Report that Presented New Evidence About Prostitution as a Cause and Consequence of Violence Against Women and Girls
- The Concept of consent in relation to violence against women and girls
- The different manifestations of violence against women and girls in the context of surrogacy
Punters
- The Invisible Men Project
- Men who Buy Sex
- Men buy sex: An interview with Alice Russell
- Comparing Sex Buyers With Men Who Do Not Buy Sex
- The John Next Door
- Attitudes and Social Characteristics of Men Who Buy Sex in Scotland
- A John Comes Forward
- Why Do Some Men Use Violence Against Women and How Can We Prevent It?
- Can We “Cure” the Men Who Pay for Sex?
- Betrayed Partners and Men with Poisoned Souls: Interview with a Former Sex Buyer in Germany
- Who Buys Sex? Understanding and Disrupting Illicit Market Demand
- Men who pay for sex in Germany and what they teach us about the failure of legal prostitution: a 6-country report on the sex trade from the perspective of the socially invisible ‘freiers’
- “Like shagging a dead fish”: misogyny and consent in online sex buyers’ reviews
Pimps
Trauma
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Clinical Observations on Prostitution
- Trauma and prostitution
- The mental health of female sex workers
- The Physical Damage in Prostitution: Report by a Gynaecologist from Street Work
Webcamming, OnlyFans and similar
- From OnlyFans to OnlyScams: The Real Price of Selling Intimacy Online
- A Former OnlyFans Recruiter Reveals The Dark World Of Amateur Pornography
- OnlyFans Exposed: Reuters’ 7-part expose on OnlyFans
- The Dark Side of OnlyFans
- The Economics of OnlyFans
Prostitution advertising websites (aka ASWs or pimping websites)
- Online Pimping: An Inquiry into Sexual Exploitation Advertising Websites
- Behind the Profile: Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking through Adult Services Websites
The costs of prostitution
- Estimate of the economic and social cost of prostitution in France
- A human capital methodology for estimating the lifelong personal costs of young women leaving the sex trade
- Treat Her Right: We won’t close the pay gap if we don’t discuss prostitution
Prostitution and neoliberalism/globalisation
- Globalization and the Sex Trade: Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children
- Neoliberalism, Queer Theory and Prostitution
- Prostitution for Everyone: feminism, globalisation, and the “sex” industry
Human rights
- Legal Prostitution: A Crime Against Humanity?
- Prostitution under International Human Rights Law
- WHY IS PROSTITUTION A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?
- European Court of Human Rights judgement in the case of M.A. and Others v. France
Survivors’ blogs
Effects on all women
- ‘Sexual entertainment districts’ make the city a more threatening place for women
- Meme about rape in New Zealand since the full decriminalisation of the sex trade
- Young women’s daily reality in east London
- Hypersexual City: The provocation of soft-core urbanism
- Shadow Women
The impact of porn and sexualisation on children
- ‘The eroticising of child sexual abuse and exploitation is happening in plain sight’.
- “More girls in hell …”: The ethics of Maïmouna Doucouré’s film ‘Cuties’
- Lost innocence: Why girls are having rough sex at 12
- Misogyny and ‘Manosphere’ Spreading To Playgrounds ‘and Is a Terror Threat’, Author Says
- Porn as default sex educator heightens risk of abuse
Pornography and sexual violence
- A Science-Based Case for Ending the Porn Epidemic
- Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography
Useful research
- Mental health challenges among biologically female sex workers
- Sexual child abuse as an antecedent to prostitution
- Sex Work and Occupational Homicide: Analysis of a U.K. Murder Database
- Mortality in a Long-term Open Cohort of Prostitute Women
- Over 90% of women in prostitution see it as their only means of survival
- RESEARCH BRIEF | Understanding and Addressing Sex Buyer. Demand: Impacts on Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation.
UK Parliament
- Sexual Exploitation Bill
- APPG on Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade: Shifting the Burden
- How to implement the Sex Buyer Law in the UK
- Home Affairs Committee Prostitution Inquiry
- NMN! Response to the Home Affairs Select Committee’s Interim Report on Prostitution
- Our reply to the government’s response
- Behind Closed Doors: Organised sexual exploitation in England and Wales
- Conservative Party Human Rights Commission Report “The Limits of consent: Prostitution in the UK”
Amnesty International
- What Amnesty did wrong
- Amnesty International’s Empty Promises: Decriminalization, Prostituted Women, and Sex Trafficking
- Why is a pimp helping to shape Amnesty’s sex trade policy?
Funding of the sex trade lobby and how it corrupts the conversation
- Decriminalization of Prostitution: The Soros Effect
- The article on prostitution the Women’s Studies Journal requested – then brushed off