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- Myths About Prostitution
- MYTH: Prostitution stops men raping women
- MYTH: Regulation makes prostitution safe
- MYTH: Prostitution is the oldest profession
- MYTH: Prostitution is a victimless crime
- MYTH: Punters respect the women they buy
- MYTH: Punters are lonely single men
- MYTH: Disabled men have the right to prostitutes
- MYTH: Legalisation makes prostitution safe
- MYTH: Legalising Prostitution Reduces the Stigma
- MYTH: The Nordic Model hinders the global fight against HIV
- MYTH: Police pursue prostituted women for sharing flats in Sweden
- MYTH: Amnesty’s research in Norway has proved the Nordic Model is harmful to “sex workers”
- Facts about Prostitution
- FACT: Choice is complicated
- FACT: Prostitution is inherently violent
- FACT: Decriminalising prostitution increases human trafficking
- FACT: Women often struggle to leave prostitution
- FACT: Buying sex makes men more prone to violence against women
- FACT: It’s illegal in England & Wales to buy sex from someone who’s been coerced
- FACT: Human trafficking means trading in human beings
- FACT: Prostitution is predicated on foregoing the right to refuse sex
- FACT: CEDAW requires countries to fight pimping
- FACT: The Nordic Model approach is cost effective
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- #MeToo stories
- The psychological damage & impact on my self esteem was devastating
- ‘I have A LOT of anger towards men’
- ‘I survived but only just & sometimes I wish I hadn’t’
- Is ‘sex work’ real work? ‘If work is being slapped/beaten/told you’re a worthless whore… Then yes it’s work’
- ‘The sex industry preys upon poor, abused and mentally ill women’
- ‘I feel like I am being gaslit by society’
- ‘In every possible way, it felt like rape’
- ‘I was surprised at the type of men that picked me up’
- ‘Just numb most of the time’
- ‘Most of us are brainwashed into thinking we chose it’
- ‘It is the men who have the choice, and since money is power, the men have the power’
- ‘I do not believe that by decriminalising this violent and horrific patriarchal institution that we make women safer’
- The Lost Soul: Elle Elizabeth’s journey through lap dancing
- Harriet’s story
- ‘In a terrible and brutal way, I learned to be a sex toy for men and listen to their wills’
- Action
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- The Holbeck red light zone: condoms, sex offenders and cars full of jeering men
- A message to left wing men
- Online Pimping: A New Dystopia
- Prostitution: How Do We Make All Women Safe?
- The long road to abolition
- What I Learnt at the UN Committee Against Torture’s Review of the UK
- An EMDR therapist on what she’s learned working with people who’ve experienced prostitution
- Norway’s Sex Purchase Act is 10 years old
- It’s fantasy that a fully decriminalised sex trade protects women
- The ‘independent’ review of the Modern Slavery Act ignores women’s human rights
- No, Teen Vogue, ‘Sex Work’ is NOT Real Work
- A Sexist Prism: National Police Guidance on Policing Prostitution
- ‘Women Wanted’ on Melbourne Streets
- Women of colour against the sex trade
- What nurses need to know about the RCN motion to decriminalise prostitution
- The problem with sex doll brothels
- A critical review of ‘Revolting Prostitutes: The fight for sex workers’ rights’ by Juno Mac and Molly Smith
- Prostitution law in Germany: Regulation for taxation
- A review of Exit! by Grizelda Grootboom
- Can the preconditions for true consent ever exist in prostitution?
- Who says decriminalised red-light districts are safer for women?
- Prostitution and free choice
- ‘Why does radical feminism exclude sex workers?’
- How the Modern Slavery Act fails women and girls
- From sexual abuse to prison via prostitution: guilty of being victims
- A plea for the Nordic Model from Nigeria
- Why stigma persists against women involved in prostitution in New Zealand
- What is feminism and why do we need it?
- Minimizing the harms of prostitution
- Survivors speak out about what prostitution is REALLY like
- No, decriminalisation of johns and pimps has not improved our safety or lives
- How the Swedish Sex Purchase Law moved the shame of prostitution from the women to the punters
- Working as a receptionist in a legal brothel proved to me that prostitution is anything but a normal job
- The Nordic Model Legislation is the Only Way to End Sex Trafficking
- “Caught in the Crossfire and Not by Accident”: In Canada, the Legislation was Just the Beginning
- The Domestic Abuse Bill: Nice try but it doesn’t come close
- Keith Vaz & the HASC inquiry into prostitution
- Hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance in Haiti and Westminster
- Invisible men in London and Telford
- Sex Worker Voices
- Survival Mechanisms and Trauma Bonding in Prostitution
- How important are punters in informing the prostitution culture and ergo, the culture at large?
- Poets and Prostitutes
- The Ever Increasing Concentration of the Sex Industry in Germany
- Alice Glass challenges three common myths in the prostitution debate
- How a Nordic Model approach to tackling prostitution was implemented in Ipswich
- #MeToo, sexual harassment and prostitution: joining the dots and demanding change
- Francine Sporenda interviews Huschke Mau about Germany’s legalised prostitution system
- Lies, Damn Lies and Ignoring Statistics: How the Decriminalisation of Prostitution is No Answer
- Smoke and mirrors at TUC Congress fringe meeting on decriminalising “sex work”
- The problem with “safety in numbers”
- Campaign to wipe women’s prostitution-related criminal records
- What’s Wrong with Prostitution?
- Prostitution Policy and Law: What are the Options?
- Controversy over Prostitution at the Amnesty UK AGM
- What the idea of “sex robots” tells us about prostitution
- Male art that dehumanises women vs. female art that illuminates the reality of sexual violence and female objectification
- Why I campaign against the sex trade
- Lessons from Ireland on Prostitution
- How to Spot an Illegal Brothel
- Amnesty’s Dangerous Wishful Thinking on Prostitution
- The Prostitution Industry and the Labour Movement
- Decriminalization and the Prostitution of British Law
- Why is Pokemon Go like prostitution?
- Self-congratulatory love-fest masquerades as policy seminar
- I, DANIEL BLAKE’s portrayal of prostitution
- Peter Tatchell and the Naming and Shaming of Keith Vaz
- Meme about rape in New Zealand since the full decriminalisation of the sex trade
- Young women’s daily reality in east London
- The Economist’s Pimp
- Report of NAWO’s “Europe Free from Prostitution” event
- Papers
- Submission to the Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act
- Submission to the Women & Equalities Committee’s inquiry into the enforcement of the Equality Act
- Submission to the Home Affairs Committee’s inquiry into modern slavery
- Submission to UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty & human rights in the UK
- Hate crime as expression of dominance and inequality
- Sexual harassment of women and girls in public places
- Submission to the UK Government’s Consultation on its Domestic Abuse Bill
- Submission to the Women & Equalities Committee’s inquiry on the implementation of SDG5
- Submission to the APPG on Prostitution & the Global Sex Trade’s inquiry into ‘pop-up’ brothels
- Response to Research Commissioned by the Scottish Government on the Available Knowledge and Evidence on Prostitution in Scotland
- Response to Research Commissioned by the Scottish Government on the Impacts of the Criminalisation of the Purchase of Sex
- Open letter to the BMA
- Response to Nigel Graham’s points about the research commissioned by the Scottish Government
- Submission to the MOPAC Consultation
- Open Letter to the Home Secretary
- Submission to Scottish Trafficking and Exploitation Consultation
- Submission to the Liberal Democrats “Sex Work” policy consultation
- Submission to the UN Women consultation on “sex work, the sex trade and prostitution”
- Response to Theresa May’s 30 July 2016 Statement on Modern Slavery
- Response to the Home Affairs Select Committee’s Interim Report on Prostitution
- Submission to the Labour Party Inquiry into Racism
- Response to Amnesty’s Prostitution Policy
- News
- The Law Commission’s Surrogacy Consultation: How to bamboozle through a dangerous new law
- Statement on the recent jailing of women in Ireland for brothel keeping
- Statement on Universal Credit and ‘survival sex’
- Statement on the RCN’s support for the full decriminalisation of the sex trade
- Open letter to the RCN
- Unison Conference 2019: Vote AGAINST Motion 108 “Decriminalisation for Safety”
- Open letter to Brighton University
- Nordic Model education in Ukraine
- International call for a global ban on womb rental (surrogacy)
- Nordic Model Now! signs the VictimFocus Charter pledge
- Unison Conference 2018: Vote AGAINST Motion 127 “Decriminalisation for Safety”
- Statement of support for Heather Brunskell-Evans
- TUC Congress 2017 Motion 39: Decriminalisation of sex work
- BMA Rejects Motion 422 to Decriminalise Sex Trade
- Motion Asking Amnesty to Reconsider its Prostitution Policy
- The Prostitution Inquiry Interim Report MUST be Scrapped
- Street Harassment and Prostitution: Making the Connections
- Complaint Against the Victoria Derbyshire TV Show
- France has adopted the Nordic Model because the Nordic Model works
- New Nordic Model Campaigning Group Formed
- Podcasts
- Press releases
- Campaigners call for BMA to reject junior doctors’ policy of full decriminalisation of the sex trade
- The ASA rules it’s OK to peddle prostitution to kids
- Press release: Dennis Parsons is wrong: prostitution is not work; it is abuse
- Press release: Vaz stepdown not enough; disgraced inquiry must GO
- Press release: Campaign group calls for the scrapping of Prostitution Inquiry
- Publications
- New ‘What is the Nordic Model?’ flyers
- Flyers about Motion 108 at the Unison Delegate Conference 2019
- Flyers explaining what the RCN motion for “decriminalisation of prostitution” REALLY means
- What does full decriminalisation of the sex trade mean in practice?
- Model CLP motion in support of the Nordic Model
- The Nordic Model Now! Slideshow
- Nordic Model Now! Business Cards
- Nordic Model Now! Pamphlet
- Events
- #MeToo stories
