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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: Men with disabilities have the right to prostitutes
      • MYTH: Legalisation makes prostitution safe
      • MYTH: Prostitution advertising websites enable women to screen clients
      • MYTH: Women involved in prostitution in Sweden have their children taken away, and other myths
      • 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”
      • MYTH: ‘Sex work’ is healing for men
      • MYTH: Nordic Model Now! is a well-funded evangelical extremist group that is ‘hellbent on killing sex workers’ – and other crazy myths
    • 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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  • Survivors’ Testimony
    • Jaime
    • Rose Hunter
    • Tiarna
    • Geneviève Gilbert
    • Liliam Altuntas
    • Andrea Heinz
    • Manon Marie Josée Michaud
    • Michelle Mara
    • Sara Smiles
    • Sandra Norak
    • Huschke Mau
    • Ally-Marie Diamond
    • Megan King
    • Anna’s Story
    • Kylee Gregg
    • Jewell Baraka
    • Mia De Faoite
    • Roslyn Hamilton
    • Why I defended the sex industry
    • Alice Glass in Conversation with Laura, Chelsea, Alisa & Rebecca
    • Laurin Crosson
    • Rebecca Mott
    • Interview with Wendy Barnes
    • Chelsea Geddes
    • Alice Glass
    • Cathy
    • Ella Zorra
    • Wendy Barnes
    • Beth
  • Posts
    • #MeToo stories
      • ‘I portrayed it as more glamorous, exciting and innocently free-spirited than it was’
      • ‘How does one live in a world that both objectifies you and hates you for the mere crime of being a girl?’
      • ‘The pain inside me was like fire burning me’
      • ‘Camming is a scam industry’
      • Cyber “femdom” or female domination is presented as an empowering dynamic, where the woman has the upper hand. It’s not.
      • ‘Sex work is a special hell that men have created for women’
      • ‘I have epilepsy. Punters would shag me when I was fitting.’
      • ‘Even in what I would consider comparatively good circumstances, prostitution was bad’
      • The Incest to Prostitution Pipeline
      • ‘Exiting sex work is easier said than done’
      • ‘I was groomed into sex work by an ex’
      • ‘If I had known the truth about what awaited me in that brothel, I would never have been there’
      • ‘Prostitution and the pornography that supports it destroy women. Why is that so hard to understand?’
      • InVISIBLE by Andrea Heinz
      • ‘We do not want to be sex workers. It’s not fun and it’s so damaging!’
      • ‘I live with the trauma of being in the sex trade from 16-25 years old but also with the fact that I involved other women’
      • ‘When the client pays for those minutes, your body is his and he will do what he wants…’
      • ‘Any girl, and most boys, growing up in care become targets for the sexual predation of adult men’
      • ‘My father started sexually abusing me before I was two years old…’
      • ‘Sex buyers, pimps and traffickers are delusional, narcissistic murderers of innocence’
      • ‘Gagged and bound, I’m led down the steps into the basement…’
      • ‘I WANT to have a real job and feel like a real person, NOT a used rag’
      • Ireland must invest in services to help people exit prostitution
      • ‘I had no support or way out’
      • ‘Made to feel like nothing, made to feel worse than nothing, like she was just disposable’
      • ‘I believe legalised prostitution strengthens and emboldens misogynistic attitudes in men’
      • ‘I am a child impacted by the sex trade! I am a child impacted by paid rape!’
      • ‘His hands are on me, my skin is screaming. Every touch burns.’
      • The cost of Western Europe’s rampant prostitution: the genocide of Romanian women
      • Open letter to all the sex buyers everywhere
      • ‘I am a prostitute. I have been a prostitute since I was underage. I’m in my mid-30s now’
      • ‘I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone seeking a short fix. The damage it has done to me is irreparable.’
      • ‘Men circling the streets, looking at the women like meat and yelling at them like dogs’
      • He believed that children enjoy their abuse
      • 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
      • Sign the petition: Change the sexist police culture. Ban cops from paying for sex.
      • 71 reasons for signing the petition to revoke Leicester University’s ‘student sex work toolkit’
      • Ask your MP to support women and VOTE FOR the Nordic Model
      • How to respond to the Scottish Prostitution Consultation
      • Ask your MP to take action on the Law Commission’s surrogacy proposals
      • Ask your MP to attend event on 24 March 2020
      • Raising awareness of the Nordic Model as the equality and human rights based approach to prostitution
      • Women and girls, what is your experience of sexual harassment in public places?
      • Cool men don’t buy sex
      • Support our Demands! Write to your MP
    • Blog
      • Do prostitution laws in Europe affect the incidence of rape? – Analysis of a recent study
      • Violence and racism in the New Zealand sex trade
      • The next time you’re in a crowded place, imagine…
      • Letter from Iraq
      • Why Andrew Tate’s indiscretion riles the pimp lobby
      • The Nordic Model seeks to establish norms under which no woman, man, girl or boy can be sold, and no one has the right to sexually exploit another human being
      • Working with boys and young men to help them break harmful habits so they can have a life where violence and abuse don’t fit
      • The end of sex robots, porn robots and representational technologies of women and girls
      • ‘If Sweden didn’t have the Nordic Model, I would not be alive’
      • “As long as porn exists, we don’t stand a chance of creating a fair and equal world”
      • On #DECRIM: Chelsea Geddes on New Zealand’s decriminalised prostitution system
      • We must stop promoting the idea that men have the right to sexual access to women & girls
      • The mass grooming of girls and young women for the sex industry starts in earliest childhood and ends with the monetisation of young women’s bodies and themselves
      • The reality of New Zealand’s decriminalised sex trade
      • Feminism and Prostitution: Beyond ‘The Happy Hooker’
      • The story of Eurydice, the first grassroots initiative against sex trafficking in Russia
      • The only way to reduce the sexual exploitation facilitated by commercial sex websites is to shut them down
      • ‘Students for sale’ conference: A chance to connect in person, and more
      • Pornography as crime scene videos: Suzzan Blac discusses her Pornhub research
      • Suzzan Blac discusses her life, trauma and extraordinary art
      • Sex (mis)education in schools
      • Last Girl First! A book review
      • BODY SHELL GIRL by Rose Hunter: A review
      • Supporting the pimp lobby so it doesn’t come for your children
      • The launch of the NMN Handbook for Universities
      • Trauma and Prostitution: The transcript
      • FFS Unison, join the dots between the endless ways men make women’s lives a misery and the industry that commercialises such behaviour.
      • In support of the total rejection of the treatment of women as property
      • Open letter to UK university vice chancellors
      • Working with students involved in the sex industry
      • ANY GIRL by Mia Döring: ‘Getting paid to please, to endure, to put up with, not to enjoy’
      • Who benefits when we promote “sex work” to students?
      • More misinformation and sex trade expansionist propaganda from the University of Leicester
      • Nordic Model Now! delivers Leicester ‘Student Sex Work’ petition
      • Distorting mirrors: The second Leicester student “sex work” training session
      • I am a sex trade survivor and I support the Nordic Model. Here’s why.
      • The ‘student sex work’ training: supporting students or shameless propaganda? You decide.
      • It’s time for the British left to recommit to truly human values
      • Universities are training students to believe prostitution is a normal job
      • ‘Can there not be but one space remaining within society, one arena, that recognizes, hones, and champions women’s intellect?’
      • When backlash causes whiplash: The media blitz of victim blaming
      • An open memo to men
      • Feeding john
      • Prostitution in Hungary and the sex trafficking of Hungarian women and girls
      • Talking with men and boys about prostitution: the transcript
      • Who will remember the sex trafficking victims?
      • Does male violence against women amount to state-sanctioned torture?
      • The lies come easily: A review of ‘The Service’ by Frankie Miren
      • Does the Leicester student ‘sex work’ toolkit comply with equality legislation?
      • A brief history of the ‘Sex work is work’ movement
      • Sexual abuse in a care home and implications of allowing carers to organise prostitution for disabled men
      • What’s wrong with the Leicester Student Sex Worker Policy and Toolkit?
      • Woman: human being or profit centre?
      • Confusing love and sex: how the care system creates a context for grooming and child prostitution
      • My Sister The Stranger by Andrea Heinz
      • German ex-police officer demolishes common arguments against the Nordic Model
      • The Nordic Model vs. full decriminalisation: what do sex trade survivors say?
      • Sex trade regulation in England & Wales: Property, hypocrisy and the ballot box
      • The deception of “Pleasure”
      • Dame Diana Johnson’s Sexual Exploitation Bill: The Debate
      • What I learned about prostitution in 20 years as a hairdresser in Berlin
      • The Law of Diminishing Returns
      • Swedish sex trade survivor group backs international campaign for the Nordic Model
      • Prostitution: Work? … Or exploitation? The discussion
      • The Nordic Model: The best approach to tackling prostitution
      • How living near the Holbeck red-light zone turned us into activists against the sex trade
      • Three Dangerous Myths About Webcamming, Debunked
      • The experience(s) of prostitution
      • ‘Sex work’ advocates and the Nazi propaganda playbook
      • Hidden in plain sight
      • The Israeli Strip Clubs’ Swan Song
      • Another stitch-up for women in Leeds
      • Unmasking the sex industry in Scotland
      • Interview with Rebecca Mott
      • The Colonisation of Intimate Life
      • Why I nearly turned my back on feminism
      • Prostitution and pornography: A historical view
      • “Murder Porn”
      • Invisible visible women
      • Josephine Butler: Pioneering feminist activist
      • What’s the problem with sex dolls? A conversation with Kathleen Richardson
      • Full decriminalisation of prostitution colludes with the notion that a woman’s consent is negotiable
      • Facts about the global sex trade exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic and how to solve them
      • Wahine Toa Rising letter to New Zealand ministers
      • Who is misbehaving? Reflections on the film, Misbehaviour
      • Prostitution is not a job and never will be. Here’s why.
      • Why the Nordic Model? A view from New Zealand
      • Paedocriminal apologetics from the sex industry apologists
      • What makes exiting prostitution so hard?
      • Thursday afternoon at the brothel
      • Full Decriminalisation of the sex trade will start an irreversible and dangerous domino effect
      • Prostitution: What are the problems and how do we solve them?
      • Legalisation of brothels and the carceral state
      • The women behind the windows in Amsterdam’s red light district
      • The child sexual abuse hidden behind the ‘sex work’ façade
      • Miseducation – This is not a love song
      • Which model is safest for women in prostitution: legalisation, full decrim, or partial decrim (Nordic Model)?
      • 20 Years On – Scotland learning from Sweden’s Sex Purchase Act
      • Rape, stigmatisation and textual victimisation
      • The F*ck Union and 20 years of Stockholm syndrome
      • Mobilising against the sex trade at FiLiA 2019
      • From the woman as object to the object as woman
      • Remembering the women who didn’t survive prostitution
      • Report on the Scottish Parliamentary Prostitution Fact Finding Trip to Sweden
      • 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
      • Feminism 101
      • 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
    • News
      • SOS! The Nordic Model is under threat in Norway!
      • Amsterdam, if you don’t want “uncouth louts” from the rest of Europe visiting your brothels, perhaps it’s time for the Nordic Model?
      • Israel: A big step forward in the support offered to survivors of prostitution
      • Another sex trade propaganda project from Leicester University
      • Leicester University confirms it has withdrawn its ‘student sex work toolkit’
      • Statement on Unison ending its support for the Nordic Model
      • The University of Leicester reveals its “student sex work” project is a “substantial commercial” opportunity
      • The ESRC appears to have pulled funding for the Leicester “student sex work” project
      • Obfuscation, denial and hubris: The government’s VAWG strategy
      • Statement on the announced closure of the Holbeck ‘Managed Approach’ red-light zone
      • Open letter to the Secretary of State for Justice about the Court of Protection ruling that carers can help clients access prostitution
      • Why is the BBC enabling a Nazi sympathiser to promote the interests of German brothels?
      • Response to the Vagina Museum’s letter to Keir Starmer MP
      • Statement on the Court of Protection ruling that it’s legal for carers to help clients pay for sex
      • Statement on the DecrimNow open letter opposing the Nordic Model
      • Female Asylum Seekers in the UK at Risk of Exploitation, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
      • Statement on VAWG in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder
      • Jacob Hawley: On Love? Or Entitlement?
      • Open letter to Freedom United calling for a rethink on its position on the sex trade
      • Leeds City Council: It’s time you listened well to Holbeck
      • About time! Women’s criminal records for soliciting will no longer always be disclosed to employers
      • Abolishing surrogacy would take real political courage
      • Wahine Toa Rising launches brilliant new website
      • What price for ruining the lives of 100s of young women?
      • NMN response to the ‘Independent Review’ of the Holbeck red-light zone in Leeds
      • Israel becomes the 8th Nordic Model country as it implements its Prohibition of Consumption of Prostitution Services Act
      • A Very Yorkshire Brothel or A Dereliction of Duty?
      • Statement on the Committee on Standards’ report on Keith Vaz
      • Unison NDMC 2019: Vote AGAINST Motion 25 “HIV/AIDS and decriminalisation for disabled people’s safety”
      • Dismissing our arguments as ‘lies’, and other misconduct
      • 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
      • 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
    • Papers
      • UK Government consultation on public sexual harassment
      • Unison National Delegate Conference 2022: Say NO to Motion 55 ‘For Safety – End Support for the Nordic Model’
      • The Nordic Model of Prostitution: A change in perspective in protection of human dignity
      • NMN Submission to the UK Government’s Women’s Health Strategy Consultation
      • NMN Response to the ‘New Plan for Immigration’ Consultation
      • What services does Israel provide to people in prostitution under the Nordic Model?
      • Critique of the Médecins du Monde study into the Nordic Model law in France
      • Response to the Law Commission’s hate crime consultation
      • NMN Response to the Scottish Consultation on Prostitution Policy
      • Human trafficking and online sexual exploitation
      • NMN Submission to the Women & Equalities Committee’s Coronavirus inquiry
      • NMN Submission to GRETA’s third evaluation of the United Kingdom
      • Has the Nordic Model worked? What does the research say?
      • Response to the Queen’s University Belfast review of the operation of Northern Ireland’s sex buyer law
      • Prostitution: Where’s the harm?
      • 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
    • Podcasts & Videos
      • Prostitution. Pleasure for men. Pain for women.
      • Students for sale: Tools for resistance
      • Why the labour and trade union movement should support the Nordic Model
      • Challenging the ‘Sex work is work’ narrative
      • Exiting prostitution: what do women need?
      • Victim blaming in the context of prostitution
      • An evening with Suzzan Blac
      • Trauma and prostitution
      • Talking with men and boys about prostitution
      • Prostitution policy: The Nordic Model or full decriminalization?
      • Prostitution: Work? … Or exploitation? Recordings and transcripts
      • The Experience of Prostitution: Recordings of the webinar
      • What’s wrong with surrogacy: Recordings of the webinar
      • Surrogacy at the crossroads: The lure of commercial baby farming
      • Unmasking the sex industry in Scotland: A conversation with Linda Thompson
      • How the Modern Slavery Act 2015 fails women and girls
      • The Colonisation of Intimate Life – The Mainstreaming of Sexual Violence and Hazard
      • Prostitution and pornography: Have they always existed?
      • Dr Jacci Stoyle talks about a Scottish fact-finding trip to Sweden
      • What’s the problem with sex dolls? A conversation with Kathleen Richardson
      • Anna talks about being groomed into prostitution and her subsequent 11 years in the sex trade
    • Press releases
      • “Students for Sale”: How the ‘sex work is real work’ slogan risks damaging our young people.
      • Campaign group launches handbook for universities as an alternative to the Leicester student ‘sex work’ toolkit
      • Campaign group calls on the University of Leicester to scrap its student sex work toolkit
      • Independent Review into controversial Holbeck red-light zone in Leeds failed to consider equality implications & made claims NOT backed up by data
      • Northern Ireland is failing to implement Clause 6 legislation
      • Over 50 organisations sign open letter condemning the Law Commissioners’ surrogacy consultation
      • Campaigners call for BMA to reject junior doctors’ policy of full decriminalisation of the sex trade
      • 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
      • Second edition of the Nordic Model Now! Handbook for Universities released!
      • ‘Decriminalisation of the sex trade vs. the Nordic Model: What you need to know’ booklet
      • The Short Nordic Model Now! Slideshow
      • A little something for the men
      • Flyers about the UK Law Commission’s Surrogacy Consultation
      • 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
    •  Surrogacy
      • Surrogacy in the UK
      • Egg ‘donation’ empowering? Really?
      • Abolishing surrogacy would take real political courage
      • Medical risks of surrogacy and egg harvesting
      • The Law Commissioners’ Key Proposals for Surrogacy Law Reform in the UK
      • What are we talking about when we talk about surrogacy?
      • What FOI requests revealed about the Law Commission’s surrogacy consultation
      • What’s wrong with surrogacy: Recordings of the webinar
      • Surrogacy at the crossroads: The lure of commercial baby farming
      • PODCAST: Surrogacy at the crossroads: The lure of commercial baby farming
      • Ask your MP to take action on the Law Commission’s surrogacy proposals
      • Surrogacy: How much is a woman worth?
      • Surrogacy: Medical risks, and costs and implications for the NHS
      • Surrogacy: A human rights violation
      • I was an altruistic surrogate and am now against ALL surrogacy
      • Open letter to the UK and Scottish Law Commissioners about the surrogacy consultation
      • Why the UK surrogacy consultation should be abandoned
      • Statement on signing as a supporter of Stop Surrogacy Now
      • How to respond to the UK Surrogacy Consultation in 10 easy minutes
      • The Law Commission’s Surrogacy Consultation: How to bamboozle through a dangerous new law
      • International call for a global ban on womb rental (surrogacy)
    • University handbook
      • The Foreword
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Why Now?
      • 3. Policy and codes of behaviour
      • 4. What are we talking about when we talk of the sex industry?
      • 5. A holistic approach to student financial hardship
      • 6. Supporting students
      • 7. Combatting sexism & supporting healthy relationships
      • 8. Legal matters
      • 9. The last word
      • 10. Resources

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