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The Nordic Model approach to sex work, [1] also marketed as the end demand, [2] equality model, [3] neo-abolitionism, [4] Nordic and Swedish model, [5] is an approach to sex work that criminalises clients, third parties and many of the ways sex workers operate. [6]
This legal and social approach to prostitution, which has become known as the "Swedish Model" or more recently the "Nordic Model", needs to be understood—at least partly—in the context of radical feminism (a philosophy which focuses on the theory of the patriarchal roots of inequality between men and women), which is very prominent in Sweden.
In 2014, Canada adopted a controversial model of sex work regulation known as the Nordic Model (or, perversely, the "equality model"). Under this model, selling sex is itself not a crime, but ...
This paradigm is the basis for the "Nordic Model" of regulating prostitution, in which paying for sex is illegal but the basic act of offering sex for money is not.
Neo-abolitionism, also called the Nordic or Swedish model, is used in Sweden, Norway, France and other countries. While selling sex is not criminalized under this approach, the buying of sex is illegal. Neo-abolitionists claim these models do not punish prostitutes, but instead penalize those who purchase sex from sex workers.
And as Hitefield noted, it pushes the Nordic model of prostitution criminalization, a system I find to be inferior to full decriminalization for a number of reasons, in addition to being ...
The ‘Nordic model’ of prostitution law is a myth. The Conversation 16 December 2013 Skilbrei, May-Len & Charlotta Holmström (2013): Prostitution Policy in the Nordic Region.
She had just adopted a "Nordic model" stance, in which sex workers are treated as victims (and thus able to avoid arrest for selling sex alone) but anyone who offers to pay them is still ...