INTERVIEW ARCHIVES: Exploring prostitution and abolition with Trisha Baptie...
Meghan Murphy explores issues and debates around prostitution, specifically looking at the abolition argument — the idea that we identify trafficking and prostitution as violence against women....
View ArticleEvidence shows that ending demand works: A response to Noy Thrupkaew and the...
Law enforcement, intellectuals, politicians, and activists all over the United States—last month, even President Obama—are discussing legal approaches toward the related scourges of human trafficking...
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New research shows violence decreases under Nordic model: Why the radio silence?
You probably haven’t heard about the newest prostitution research from Norway. It has been available in Norwegian since last summer when a tiny handful of pro-prostitution peeps wrote about it, but...
View ArticleThere is no feminist war on sex workers
I’ve become increasingly frustrated by what feels like a barrage of articles coming from self-described progressives claiming that feminists are the real enemy of sex workers. It seems as though some...
View ArticleNorwegian prostitution research solid like iceberg
Samantha Berg elaborates on Pro Sentret’s research into violence against prostituted women under the Nordic model. The third page of Pro Sentret’s Dangerous Liaisons report lays out the mission...
View ArticleThe Nordic model is the only model that actually works. ‘Duh,’ says Sweden
An article was published recently in The Independent looking at the Nordic model in Sweden. The journalist, Joan Smith, took a ride in a squad car to see how a model wherein the buyer is criminalized...
View ArticlePODCAST: Indigenous women & prostitution: An interview with Cherry Smiley
Prostitution is a gendered issue, but it’s also an issue that is very much tied to class and race. Canada’s history of colonialism is not something to be ignored when looking at both causes of and...
View ArticlePODCAST: Jackie Lynne on internalized racism, abuse, and surviving prostitution
Jackie Lynne, a Métis woman, a social worker, and an exited prostitute, who has been researching prostitution academically since 1998, speaks about her experiences of abuse, rape, and internalized...
View ArticlePODCAST: An interview with the directors of ‘Buying Sex’
Filmmakers, Teresa MacInnes and Kent Nason set out to explore the various models of prostitution law across the world and the impacts on women in the industry. They spoke with johns, sex workers, law...
View ArticleArguing Against the Industry of Prostitution – Beyond the Abolitionist Versus...
Introduction Prostitution has long been a contentious issue in the Women’s Liberation Movement, splitting feminist individuals and groups. This is largely because the debate is often reduced to an...
View Article10 myths about prostitution, trafficking and the Nordic model
When the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia (CATWA) announced the release of our new report on the Nordic Model, supporters of the sex industry began targeting our Facebook page. When I...
View ArticleSupreme Court of Canada removes laws criminalizing prostitution: What’s next?
I’m glad I was partially wrong in my reflections yesterday about the impending Supreme Court of Canada decision in Bedford. The Court did not follow the lead of the Ontario Court of Appeal by letting...
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Being and Being Bought: An interview with Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Swedish journalist and the author of “Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self,” which was recently translated into French and English. I spoke with her...
View ArticleEU Parliament passes resolution in favour of the Nordic model
EU Parliament passed a resolution today in favour of the Nordic model, which criminalizes the purchase of sex, while decriminalizing prostituted people. The resolution passed by 343 votes to 139, with...
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In prostitution, ‘race, class, and sex intersect in the worst of ways to...
Last month CTV News aired a short documentary as part of their “First Story” series, called “Stepping from the Shadows,” which looks at indigenous women and prostitution, the Bedford decision, and how...
View ArticleOpen letter in support of adopting the Nordic model in Canada garners over...
Last month an open letter signed by 300 academics encouraged Canadian politicians to support the full decriminalization of prostitution in Canada. Today, a letter signed by over 800 feminists and...
View ArticleActual evidence shows the Nordic model works
A study commissioned by Norway’s government shows that criminalizing the purchase of sex has decreased trafficking and has not caused violence against women to increase, as some have claimed. Johns...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland bans buying sex
Last night, members of the Stormont assembly voted in favour of a bill that would outlaw the purchase of sex in Northern Ireland. Buying sex is currently legal in Northern Ireland though activities...
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Bill C-36 passes senate, receives Royal Assent, will become law in 30 days
On Tuesday, November 4, 2014, Bill C-36 passed the Senate. Today the bill received Royal Assent, which means that in 30 days The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act will become law. In...
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Cabinet to proceed with legislation criminalizing johns in Republic of Ireland
The Irish Times reports that Cabinet has decided to proceed with legislation that will criminalize johns in the Republic of Ireland. Members of the Stormont assembly voted in favour of a bill that...
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