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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: 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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- ‘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
- 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
- As a sex trade survivor, I believe the Nordic Model framework is the way forward, rather than the New Zealand model
- FFS Unison, join the dots between the endless ways men make women’s lives a misery and the industry that commercialises such behaviour.
- Surviving the Sex Trade Trolls
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A call to Unison to 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
- 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
- ‘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
- 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
- #MeToo stories