Nordic Model Now!
Movement for the Abolition of Prostitution
A call for everyone to listen to survivors of the sex industry and to understand the trauma they suffer and to show them compassion and grace. Read More
Sex trade survivor, Amanda Quick, responds to Ash Regan’s Unbuyable Bill falling with a call for honest discussions about the harms of prostitution. Read More
Sex trade survivor, Venessa, calls on politicians to do something truly radical and hold men accountable for their actions by passing the Nordic Model. Read More
Jenna writes eloquently about the self-objectification that followed sexual abuse she suffered as a child and how this led her into prostitution. Read More
69 prostitution survivors from 15 countries call on Scottish ministers and MSPs to support Ash Regan’s Nordic Model style bill. Read More
In this moving poem, Jenna describes her struggle to rebuild a life away from prostitution. Read More
Jenna reflects on her experience in prostitution and explains why she supports the Nordic Model and not full decriminalisation. Read More
Jenna tells of her struggles to build a career after prostitution, brilliantly conveying the difficulties women face after sexual exploitation. Read More
A warning about the ever-expanding influence of the sex industry and the harm it unleashes on both the women involved and society, especially the young. Read More
Informed by her own experience of the sex industry, Kelly discusses ‘Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over. S6 E1 Lily Phillips: X-Rated Creator’. Read More
A poem by a prostitution survivor about the impact of selling sex and the struggle to reclaim her body as her own. Read More
Jenna, a prostitution survivor, discusses ‘1000 Men and Me – the Bonnie Blue Story’, drawing parallels with her own experiences of paid sex. Read More
Sian explains how for 3 years from when she was 13, a white man ‘sexually exploited’ her – i.e. groomed and pimped her into prostitution – selling her to thousands of mostly white men. Read More
What is OnlyFans? How does it work? Is it really easy money? How is it affecting society? For answers to these questions and more, watch the recording of this webinar. Read More
Jenna, a prostitution survivor, writes about the impact of stealthing on women involved in prostitution. Read More
Prostitution survivor, Emma, reflects on the utter confusion involved in selling sex and the mismatch between the hype that “sex work is real work” and the actual reality. Read More
A short film of a series of prostitution adverts, quotes from reviews by sex buyers (punters) of the women they buy, and quotes from women with lived experience of prostitution about what it is really like. Read More
Links to the recordings of this conference, which took a critical look at pornography, prostitution, and surrogacy. Read More
A harrowing account of child abuse, child sexual exploitation, prostitution, and extreme BDSM. Read More
In this powerful piece, French prostitution survivor, Florence Jacquet, calls for the end to the porn and prostitution systems. Read More
The text of a brilliant speech that prostitution survivor-activist, Rose Hunter, gave at a Feminist Forum in Melbourne, Australia. Read More
Review of: WHEN MEN BUY SEX: WHO REALLY PAYS? Canadian Stories of Exploitation, Survival, and Advocacy by Andrea Heinz & Kathy King. Read More
A brilliant rebuttal to a recent article in the Metro claiming “escorts” reduce male loneliness. Read More
This testimony about how predatory men sexually used and abused a 17-year-old girl who had endured years of child abuse and neglect would be shocking – were it not so common. Read More
Two women and a man provide short accounts of their experience of prostitution, explaining how they were groomed, coerced and exploited. Read More
A critical response to the research entitled ‘The role of adult service websites (AWS) in addressing modern slavery’ from the University of Leicester. Read More
Transcripts and recordings of Nordic Model Now’s ‘Breaking the Cycle’ conference that was held in central London on 11 November 2023. Read More
In this exquisite piece of writing, Huschke Mau describes what she encountered in Chinatown after speaking at the Breaking the Cycle conference. Read More
Everything you need to know about the ‘Breaking the Cycle’ conference being held in central London on Saturday 11 November and via live stream. Read More
Sian describes her experience of prostitution as a teenager and its link to child sexual abuse. She explains why the term ‘sex work’ obscures the violence and horror of the sex trade. Read More
Sex trade survivor Michelle Kelly explains why she supports the Nordic Model approach to prostitution law and policy rather than full decriminalisation. Read More
Jenna explains why she entered prostitution, what it was like, and why it took her so long to face the reality that ‘sex work is real work’ is a lie. Read More
An “altruistic” surrogate mother explains how she was abandoned by the intended parents and a midwife talks of some harrowing surrogacy cases she witnessed. Read More
How one woman’s surrogacy journey turned into a nightmare of lies, manipulation and cruelty. Read More
‘Belle’ tells of her life in prostitution – how she had no idea what she was signing up for or the devastating consequences it would have. Read More
A powerful and moving talk from Ally-Marie Diamond about the realities of the decriminalised system of prostitution in New Zealand and its disastrous impact on Māori and Pasifika women and girls. Read More
What it would be like if we had to have sex with every single man we can see in a crowded train or pub and what would this tell us about prostitution? Read More
‘Miranda’ fell into prostitution as a young woman and for a while portrayed it as glamorous and exciting – until a few years’ after she’d left the industry, the true horrors of her experiences came back to her… Read More
A former cam girl reflects on Andrew Tate’s influence and how it is a reflection of a much deeper problem – the institutionalised objectification and hatred of women. Read More
Brendan writes about being sexually abused and raped while at school and the violence and many years involvement in prostitution that followed. Read More
Download a free PDF or buy printed copies of our 48-page A5-sized ‘What are we talking about when we talk of the sex industry?’ booklet. Read More
Audio recording of the ‘Prostitution. Pleasure for men. Pain for women.’ event that Nordic Model Now! hosted in Nottingham on 25 June 2022. Read More
A woman who has been webcamming for six years explains the reality – that it’s nothing like it’s depicted in the mainstream media and the consumers are abusive and manipulative. Read More
In this harrowing piece, Sandra explains the reality of ‘femdom’ webcamming to male consumers, who – surprise, surprise – do not usually “behave like fans or friends but as jealous stalkers or abusive partners”. Read More
Access to recordings and transcripts of the talks at the ‘Students for sale: Tools for resistance’ conference on Saturday 15 October 2022. Read More
Cajsa talks about her experience of prostitution in Sweden under the Nordic Model and why she believes it is the best approach to prostitution law and policy. Read More
Based on her 20 years in New Zealand’s brothels, Chelsea Geddes gives the lowdown on how ‘sex work decrim’ works in practice. Read More
Now that the grooming of girls to be sexual and ‘porn ready’ starts so young, the dominance of the ‘sex work is real work’ ideology is catastrophic, especially for girls and young women from the most marginalised communities. Read More
The dangers of Onlyfans and ‘sugar dating’ and how young women are groomed and lured into these newer and emerging forms of prostitution and pornography. Read More
Chelsea Geddes draws on her more than 20 years in New Zealand’s legal brothels, to explain how the full decrim prostitution system works out in practice. Read More