Community Guide: The Real Impact of the Swedish Model on Sex Workers

Source
NSWP
Year
2015

This is a Community Guide to the Advocacy Toolkit: The Real Impact of the Swedish Model on Sex Workers, a collection of papers on the harmful Swedish model. It can be used to challenge the widespread promotion of this detrimental legal and political approach to the regulation of sex work.

Contents include:

  • Sweden’s Abolitionist Understanding, and  Modes of Silencing Opposition
  • Impacts of the Sex Purchase Law: Street- Based Sex Work and Levels of Sex Work
  • Impacts of the Swedish Model’s Justifying Discourses on Service Provision
  • Impacts of Other Legislation and Policy – The Danger of Seeing  the Swedish Model in a Vacuum
  • Right to Work and Other Work-Related  Human Rights
  • Sex work and the Right to Health
  • Sex Work and  Arbitrary Interference with Families
  • Sex Work and  Violence: Obligations of the State

You can download this 13-page PDF above. This resource is available in English, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian.