This page provides to links to useful articles and research (mostly) on other websites.
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
- 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?
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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”
- Online Pimping: An Inquiry into Sexual Exploitation Advertising Websites
Amnesty International
- What Amnesty did wrong
- Amnesty International’s Empty Promises: Decriminalization, Prostituted Women, and Sex Trafficking
- A Human Rights Scandal
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