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Comment on France’s newest import? Parliamentary Commission calls for “Swedish model” client criminalisation by Thierry Schaffauser

Thierry Schaffauser — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:15:24 +0000

Except that French sex workers don’t want the Swedish model !!
We want our labour rights being recognised. We are real workers.
We want decriminalisation for all. Criminalising our clients is criminalising us sex workers. It is taking away our livelihood. It is forcing us to work in more remote areas, more dangerous for us, with outreach programs no longer accessible for all. It is reinforcing our exploitation because we will need more third parties to arrange the meeting with the clients.
It is reinforcing the stigma and our status as victims and social misfits.
We don’t want pity. We want labour rights!
Stop the abolitionist business and all their lies.

Comment on The impact of Finnish parliamentary election results on prostitution policy by Johanna Sirkiä

Johanna Sirkiä — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:45:04 +0000

DR. ANNA KONTULA’S BOOK NOW AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH

Anna Kontula’s doctoral thesis (research about sex work in Finland) is now available in English under title SCARLET EXODUS.
See: http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/scarlet_exodus/

The original book PUNAINEN EKSODUS (in Finnish) was published in 2008.
See: http://www.like.fi/kirjat/punainen-eksodus-tutkimus-seksityosta-suomessa

Comment on Evaluating the Swedish Ban on the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Anna Skarhed Report by Behind the Happy Face of the Swedish Anti-Prostitution Law | Jessica Land

Behind the Happy Face of the Swedish Anti-Prostitution Law | Jessica Land — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:33:36 +0000

[...] academic project on prostitution, NPPR, published a careful assessment of the report (in English), calling it endless fodder for [...]

Comment on Race and prostitution in Norway by Sosialisten

Sosialisten — Sun, 29 May 2011 23:30:32 +0000

“While the anti-prostitution laws of the two countries may be similar in their design, they have come about under radically different circumstances.”

I have to dispute this conclusion. Criminalisation of sex buyers was an issue that had been pushed by feminists, leftists and others for many years. The issue was basically decided at the national conventions of the Socialist Left Party and the Labour Party in the spring of 2007, where majorities voted in favour of criminalisation, in both cases against the will of the party leaderships. The Centre Party and the Christian People’s Party were already supportive, and there was therefore a majority in the parliament for such a ban. This is not much different from Sweden, where the issue was also driven by the grassroots level in the Social Democratic Party, while the leadership was initially more sceptic. And according to Arthur Gould’s “The Criminalisation of Buying Sex: the Politics of Prostitution in Sweden”, Jnl Soc. Pol., 30, 3, 437–456, concerns about foreign prostitutes from Eastern Europe played a part in the Swedish debate in the 1990s as well. Seems to me that the similarities between the circumstances in Norway and Sweden, and probably Icelandic ban as well, are much more significant than the differences.

Comment on Evaluating the Swedish Ban on the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Anna Skarhed Report by Bakom det lyckliga ansiktet på antiprostitutionslagen | louisep [blogg och text]

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:26:00 +0000

[...] NPPR har publicerat en notering att rapporten kommer ge upphov till ”endless fodder for proponents and critics of the ban alike to continue trading claims and counter-claims as to what the ban has (and has not) achieved since its implementation.” Nåja, det var ju också ett onödigt flat sätt att säga att det är inte helt svårt att se alla brister. [...]

Comment on Pia Levin joins NPPR staff by Michael Goodyear

Michael Goodyear — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:41:57 +0000

These shifts in worker organisations such as SANS in Sweden and now SALLI in Finland are themselves worthy of examination in terms of how they have or have not been able to influence policy and how in response workers have been constructed to make them relatively invisible in the policy agendas. However as old alliances fade, new ones continue to appear.

Comment on Evaluating the Swedish Ban on the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Anna Skarhed Report by New law could criminalise men for buying sex

New law could criminalise men for buying sex — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:47:15 +0000

[...] you want to examine the impact of the Swedish law, it makes for interesting reading- Evaluating the Swedish Ban on the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Anna Skarhed Report | Nordic Pros… (this is heavily skewed towards the ban side but the devil is in the detail …), The intent of [...]

Comment on Pia Levin joins NPPR staff by Johanna Sirkiä

Johanna Sirkiä — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:54:55 +0000

Finnish sex workers’s association SALLI has been dissolved and and the web site Salli.org has been closed. Statements of Salli (in Finnish) are now available on http://www.ladyjohanna.com/salli/kanta/index.html

Comment on Pia Levin joins NPPR staff by Johanna Sirkiä

Johanna Sirkiä — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:59:41 +0000

Congratulations, Pia!
I give you one advice: If you are interested in documents produced by SALLI [http://www.salli.org], it would be good to download all of them (as PDF-files) since it is uncertain whether SALLI.ORG will continue existing online.
Salli’s declarations can be found on
http://www.salli.org/kanta/index2.html

Comment on Skilbrei on ‘un-Norwegian’ prostitution by Literature on Norwegian prostitution policy | Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:41:46 +0000

[...] Skilbrei, too, discusses how recent public debates, both nationally and locally, have dealt with the phenomenon of …. Skilbrei notes that while traditional discourses victimise prostituted women, the terms of debate [...]