"With the Nordic model, sex workers themselves aren’t persecuted for selling or advertising their own sexual services. Instead, clients are criminalized, as are other business practices such as facilitating advertising (promotion of prostitution of others) and supporting someone with money you make from sex work (receiving material benefit from someone else’s work). One of the consequences of this is that clients are now committing an offence by purchasing sexual services. This in turn makes clients less willing to comply with screening, or any screening that is done is inadequate or rushed [4].
Those in support of [the Nordic model] argue that it improves safety by ending a demand for prostitution, reduces violence, and encourage “victims” to come forward to report violent acts from criminals. However, research has shown the abolitionist approach is failing the workers they claim to help. For example, a 2004 report comparing the purchase of sexual services between Sweden and the Netherlands, released just 5 years after the Nordic model was implemented in Sweden, indicates sex workers are being exposed to more dangerous clients because clients are now afraid of screening out of fear of persecution [5]. Sex workers who are victims of assault are actually less likely to report violence or exploitation, and locations where sex work is criminalized have the highest reports of abuse to workers [6]. Criminalization also limits access to HIV and STD screening [7], which creates a healthcare problem, particularly in marginalized populations.
https://medium.com/@lafemmeisobel/my-safety-is-more-important-than-your-privacy-706922ca5394
Those in support of [the Nordic model] argue that it improves safety by ending a demand for prostitution, reduces violence, and encourage “victims” to come forward to report violent acts from criminals. However, research has shown the abolitionist approach is failing the workers they claim to help. For example, a 2004 report comparing the purchase of sexual services between Sweden and the Netherlands, released just 5 years after the Nordic model was implemented in Sweden, indicates sex workers are being exposed to more dangerous clients because clients are now afraid of screening out of fear of persecution [5]. Sex workers who are victims of assault are actually less likely to report violence or exploitation, and locations where sex work is criminalized have the highest reports of abuse to workers [6]. Criminalization also limits access to HIV and STD screening [7], which creates a healthcare problem, particularly in marginalized populations.
https://medium.com/@lafemmeisobel/my-safety-is-more-important-than-your-privacy-706922ca5394