Criminalizing the Buying of Sex? Experiences from the Nordic Contries | LSE Online Event

The “Swedish” or “Nordic” model has in recent years risen to the centre of anti-trafficking and prostitution policy debates. It claims to revolutionise the policy field by criminalising the buying instead of the selling of sex. Sweden implemented this policy in 1999, relying on radical feminist arguments of commercial sex as a form of violence against women and a hindrance to gender equality. Since then, this policy approach has been adopted in several European states, Canada and Israel. But how does this policy affect the people it claims to protect, sex workers and people in the sex trade? What does it mean that sex work is increasingly governed through feminist arguments of protection and gender equality? Who is most affected by this approach, and with what consequences? #LSEEurope

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Speakers:
🔴 Anna Błuś
🔴 Suzanne Hoff
🔴 Elene Lam
🔴 Dr Niina Vuolajärvi

Chair:
🔴 Dr Oula Kadhum

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