Posts by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
(DIR) Post #AXtQmeHbT3nEtzvPxg by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-07-20T17:40:59.506835Z
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“During my 13-year career as a midwife I witnessed many negative consequences of surrogacy for women.The first time I encountered a surrogate mother was when I was caring for her when she was unwell in the high dependency unit. She had been commissioned by two gay men to carry a baby for them. It was her egg. There was a vast age gap between the two men and one of them died during the pregnancy. The younger one no longer wanted the baby. This young mother was then left to bring up the baby by herself. She was vulnerable, poor, and had previously been a victim of domestic abuse…”Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/07/19/women-are-not-microwaves-a-surrogate-mother-and-a-midwife-speak-of-the-havoc-that-surrogacy-causes/
(DIR) Post #AY3r6iilM0itoS89OC by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-07-25T17:20:00.693856Z
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New review of the brilliant ‘Your Brain on Porn’ by the late Gary Wilson“Six studies since 2010 have shown that rates of erectile dysfunction among men under 40 are now somewhere between 14% and 33%. That’s approaching a rate of one in three. This is a thousand percent increase from the previous rate that had remained stable at 2-3% for half a century. The increase exactly matches the period that saw the rollout of high-speed internet and porn tube sites.”https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/07/25/porn-is-killing-sex-and-what-to-do-about-it/
(DIR) Post #AYIDqX9V1WMtufWv3I by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-08-01T16:51:02.975081Z
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In this brilliant new post, Sex trade survivor, Rose Hunter, interviews Sheila Jeffreys about her trailblazing book, The Idea of Prostitution.“I was so shocked at the way the prostitution of women was accepted in Australia that I decided I had to write a book which examined the ‘idea’ of prostitution, that is, how it became acceptable for men to use women’s bodies in prostitution as if they had no personhood (as if they were, in the title of my later book on this topic, ‘industrial vaginas’)—and how so many feminists accepted that there was something inevitable about it.”https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/08/01/the-idea-of-prostitution-qa-with-sheila-jeffreys-and-rose-hunter/
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2023-08-08T17:40:25.109769Z
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“While we wholeheartedly welcome the ban on police paying for “sexual services”, in other respects this new guidance is dumbfounding. Its focus on “sex worker” safety is unrealistic and ill-informed and the focus on building an “intelligence picture” rather than on preventing and enforcing the law against pimping and brothel-keeping is beyond disturbing. We would go as far to suggest that in issuing this guidance, the NPCC is usurping the role of Parliament over this area of criminal law.”Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/08/08/the-new-national-police-sex-work-guidance-the-good-the-bad-and-the-downright-shameful/
(DIR) Post #AYjHmXNme6ezL4qUYC by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-08-14T18:10:52.478773Z
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“These men did not even view me as human let alone a beautiful woman. One of the worst things you can do in the sex industry is read your own reviews. That’s when you find out what they really think of you. How less than human you are.”https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/08/13/these-men-did-not-even-view-me-as-human-let-alone-a-beautiful-woman/
(DIR) Post #AZ64yqTlLXmQPdNLlo by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-08-25T18:06:31.174747Z
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Surrey University Students’ Union (SU) recently published a Safety Toolkit for Student Sex Workers. In this article we explain why we believe this Toolkit is misguided and will inevitably fail to achieve its stated aims. https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/08/25/surrey-university-students-union-publishes-safety-toolkit-for-student-sex-workers/
(DIR) Post #AZEMBtUahtOI0ZFaDI by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-08-29T17:20:55.363853Z
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Publicly available homicide data makes it clear that the claim that the Nordic Model is more dangerous for “sex workers” than full decriminalisation is FALSE.Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/myths-about-prostitution/myth-the-nordic-model-is-more-dangerous-for-sex-workers-than-decriminalisation/
(DIR) Post #AZSu6KUJ0LoUumdKIC by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-09-05T18:24:20.100074Z
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“I believe that for us to enshrine prostitution in law as ‘sex work,’ when it is in fact sexual exploitation, is to throw marginalised women and people exploited within the system of prostitution, entirely under the bus. The term ‘sex work’ is used in the UK to refer to many roles within the sex industry and indeed, many activists identify as ‘sex workers’ when they are involved in areas of the industry that are already fully decriminalised such as erotic dancing, porn, webcamming etc.”Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/09/05/why-i-support-the-equality-nordic-model-instead-of-decriminalisation-of-brothel-owners-and-pimps/
(DIR) Post #AZdBlwIRHi0aipTlEO by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-09-10T17:27:18.404667Z
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“The year is 2031. India is flooded with refugees displaced by rising sea levels that have submerged their homes in coastal regions. Environmental catastrophe has caused the fish stocks to disappear and with them local livelihoods and a protein staple.Anbu is the eldest daughter of Selvi and Munusamy, a now out of work traditional fisherman. Shortly after being forcibly removed to an inland refugee camp, Munusamy is killed in a tragic accident. Selvi, desperate for money to support her younger children, arranges for Anbu to be taken Bengaluru on her 18th birthday to join one of the many megabrothels that have sprung up since India, on the advice of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and international NGOs, fully decriminalised the prostitution industry four years earlier…”https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/09/09/book-review-object-of-desire-by-brooks-anderson/
(DIR) Post #AZm0ZClJ3pxE82vG1g by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-09-14T16:26:40.166505Z
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Today (14 September 2023) the European Union (EU) parliament voted to adopt a new resolution recognising prostitution as a form of violence against women and girls and both a cause and consequence of inequality between women and men, and calling on EU states to implement all the component measures of the Nordic Model (aka the Equality Model).Eternal thanks to everyone who worked to pull this off.Here is the text of the resolution: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0328_EN.pdf
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2023-09-22T18:02:55.548240Z
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“Every single person I’ve ever met who’s been involved in the sex industry was sexually abused as a child”Brilliant but harrowing new first-person account of being pimped and prostituted as a teenager.https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/09/20/every-single-person-ive-ever-met-whos-been-involved-in-the-sex-industry-was-sexually-abused-as-a-child/
(DIR) Post #Aa4AbBzxCsrK0T84OG by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-09-23T17:35:33.675713Z
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“As an exited woman, I felt so much joy when I read, last week, that the EU has voted to adopt the resolution to defend the abolition of prostitution across the EU area, by supporting the provisions of the Nordic (Equality) Model. To read that the EU believes prostitution is violence against women and girls, to see it written in black and white that the EU recognises the harms that prostitution causes to women and girls, felt incredibly emotional to me.”https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/09/22/a-step-towards-a-europe-free-from-prostitution/
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2023-09-26T17:05:40.363373Z
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Sex trade lobbyists CLAIM that New Zealand’s fully decriminalised prostitution system is safer for “sex workers” and strengthens their human rights, using the NZ government’s official reports & assessments to back this up.Now a data scientist has carefully examined the hundreds of pages of those official reports & assessments and has found that in fact the data shows that decriminalising prostitution has been a total failure.The infographics pull out the key points and the differences between the claims and what the data in the reports actually shows.Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/09/25/what-really-happened-in-new-zealand-after-prostitution-was-decriminalised/
(DIR) Post #AaZDt18R14gDeXAUy0 by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-10-08T17:14:47.121038Z
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‘Why the UN is WRONG to recommend that all countries should decriminalise prostitution’Several UN bodies, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), advocate decriminalising prostitution. UNAIDS has even gone so far as to make one of the key targets of its five year plan getting the decriminalisation of prostitution adopted in 90% of nations globally.And by decriminalisation, they mean full decriminalisation of the entire industry, including pimps, brothel keepers and sex buyers…https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/10/05/why-the-un-is-wrong-to-recommend-that-all-countries-should-decriminalise-prostitution/
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2023-11-18T17:26:17.587170Z
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Transcript of @michael_sheath’s insightful speech at #BreakingTheCycle on 11/11/23.“Much of the content and ideological underpinning of online mainstream pornography is, in my view, depicting and promoting sexual violence against women. It is not simply ‘adult entertainment.’”https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/11/17/child-sexual-exploitation-material-and-mainstream-pornography-overlapping-content-constructs-and-ideologies/
(DIR) Post #Ac0VGSSK84wmlNMeES by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2023-11-20T18:17:24.404816Z
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Exquisite, heartbreaking writing from @HuschkeMau about her trip to Chinatown immediately after the #BreakingTheCycle conference.“In the midst of this colourful commotion, between all the party goers, the lights, music and dancing, and the open restaurants and bars. She stood in a doorway under a sign saying, “Massage”. She was terribly young. She stood there in a mini skirt; her nose red; her eyes red. From the cold or was she crying?I saw her and the world stopped. I stood still while everything around me was moving. I was shocked…”Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/11/19/people-partying-around-a-girl-who-has-to-wait-for-the-next-rape/
(DIR) Post #AdXevweAQynL4IeWky by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2024-01-05T16:48:09.151586Z
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“I was sold a complete lie. It’s not easy money. To the buyer, you are nothing more than an object for their consumption, not an actual human being with emotions. You are expected to just put up with whatever they want to do and say to you. The exchange of money makes them feel entitled to treat you however they like, with no regard for your feelings or consent. Not only that, but the buyers know very well how to push the price down as low as possible – they know that you’re vulnerable and that you need the cash and they have no problem using that to their advantage.”Read more:https://nordicmodelnow.org/testimonial/emily/
(DIR) Post #AiNvZIVT6ZF1UgX0l6 by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2024-05-29T10:16:51.430536Z
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Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on VAWG has released her report on prostitution and violence against women to the UN Human Rights Council.It is a most moving and comprehensive document that we would urge everyone to read. Here is the first paragraph of the Conclusion:“Prostitution is a system of exploitation and an aggregated form of male violence against women and girls that intersects with other forms of structural discrimination. It is exercised systematically by a wide web of State and non-State actors that subjugate, control and exploit women and girls in violation of their fundamental human rights. The extreme levels of violence inflicted on women in prostitution – which would never be accepted in other contexts – are blanketed by a financial transaction, designed to materialize a so-called “consent” that cannot be expressed freely in the prostitution system. In this context, the very concept of “consent” is weaponized against women in prostitution, as it is extorted through physical or economic coercion, manipulation and violence. Coercion is built into the prostitution system, facilitating entry factors as well as control and exploitation by pimps, traffickers and States. Attempts to ignore the devastating causes and consequences for women and girls and wider society are an extension of the historic normalization of women’s stereotyped role in society and the commodification of female sexual and reproductive capacities. Similarly, societies that have accepted that the most marginalized women and girls are overrepresented in prostitution have been legitimizing violence against them and their exploitation by normalizing the prostitution system as a means of livelihood and survival.”THANK YOU Reem Alsalem!The report is available in all the official UN languages and can be downloaded using the following link. Scroll down to report A/HRC/56/48.https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session56/list-reports
(DIR) Post #Aq2nLVkW1x5EfJg8bg by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2025-01-13T15:41:16.841909Z
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New infographic about how women and girls get drawn into prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation.
(DIR) Post #AqFUZfn07sInmgMMIS by NordicModelNow@spinster.xyz
2025-01-19T18:43:52.281702Z
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Raising Kids in a Pornified World: An online workshop led by Helen McDonaldFREE WEBINAR: 2-3.30pm GMT, Sunday 26 January 2025This online workshop is rapidly approaching. It is highly recommended if you work with or care for children or young people. It will outline an up-to-date context of pornography and the sex trade and suggest practical strategies for: having age-appropriate conversations about porn; helping children form healthy relationships and set appropriate boundaries and speak up about abuse.It is free, but you need to register in advance. FIND OUT MORE AND REGISTER:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raising-kids-in-a-pornified-world-tickets-1100285556719