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Some of your arguments are used to justify the Nordic Model -- only clients should get arrested. However, it somehow always seems that it's the sex workers who suffer, even being arrested and gaoled for working/living together, etc. It's a rad fem authoritarian utopia that damages SWers routinely, and has had not noticeable impact on already-illegal trafficked SWer situation (generally from former USSR and the middle-East).


I'm not crazy about the Nordic Model.

An awful lot of feminist stuff seems to grow out of the poison seed of an idea that the cure for the way the world hates on women is to replace policies that hate on women with policies that actively and intentionally hate on men.

It is a fundamentally broken mental model that I cannot support. It is a variation of what so many activists do where they decry the injustice of the current system and how it mandates that Group A is allowed to shit on Group B, but their proposed solution is "As a member of Group B, I want a mandate that Group B gets to shit on Group A instead."

If all you are doing is rearranging the pieces on the gameboard without fundamentally changing the rules, you are merely reassigning which parties get unjust treatment. You aren't actually creating a more just world.

Given that this often boils down to saying to privileged people in power "I would like to stop being the world's toilet and I would like you to virtuously volunteer to take my place as a toilet," it's really not surprising that so much activism gets aggressive pushback from those currently in power.

The path forward is to find a rule set which states "Shitting on people is bad and forbidden. We don't care who they are, don't shit on them. Please and thank you (and backed up with a big stick if polite requests don't work on you)."


Interesting. It sounds strange to me that mostly sex workers get arrested. Do you have a source on this?

A source on the eventual impact on trafficking would also be of interest. (I am Swedish and this, if true, I'd news to me).




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