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Also known as | End demand Equality model Neo-abolitionism Partial decriminalization Sex buyer law Swedish model |
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Adopted by | Sweden (1999) Norway (2009) Iceland (2009) Canada (2014) Northern Ireland (2015) France (2016) Ireland (2017) Israel (2018) Maine (2023) |
The Nordic Model approach to sex work,[1] also known as the end demand,[2] equality model,[3] neo-abolitionism,[4] Nordic and Swedish model,[5] is an approach to prostitution that criminalises clients, third parties and many of the ways the sex trade operates.[6] This approach to criminalising sex trafficking was developed in Sweden in 1999 on the debated radical feminist position that all sex work is exploitative and no person can willingly consent to sexual exploitation.[7] The main objective of the model is to abolish the sex industry and the suffering it causes by punishing the purchase of sexual services and providing resources for the survivors of prostitution.[8][9] The model has been criticised for making working in the sex industry more difficult.[10]
The model was first instituted in Sweden in 1999 and then into effect in Norway in 2009 as part of the Sex Buyer Law.[11] As of 2023, eight countries and one US state have adopted the model in full or in part.
Organizations for the rights of sex workers, such as the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, as well as global human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, do not support the Nordic model, and have called for the decriminalization of sex work.[citation needed]
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