Comments for Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform

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 [...]

Comment on Prostitution policy change as a problem-driven process by Literature on Norwegian prostitution policy | Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:41:00 +0000

[...] the purchase of sexual services as of 2009. While it seems likely that changes in media discourse, corresponding to changes in prostitution markets, did influence policy, that shift is only half the story: the nature of the influence as such must [...]

Comment on The rise and fall of the Joint Action in Norway by Literature on Norwegian prostitution policy | Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:40:45 +0000

[...] This type would include Strøm’s recent historical account of the Women’s Front and its struggle against prostitution over 30 years5. From a different perspective, Renland and Randers-Pehrson both discuss how sex [...]

Comment on Norway bans the purchase of sexual services by Literature on Norwegian prostitution policy | Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:24:43 +0000

[...] (as did the Christian Democratic party), a broad majority now supported criminalisation. In April 2008, Storberget presented the bill (Ot. prp. 48 [2007-2008]) which resulted in a sex purchase ban taking effect on 1 January, [...]

Comment on Interests, women’s representation and prostitution policy reform by Robert Collins

Robert Collins — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:04:13 +0000

women issues these days are more on equal rights with men and woman power’`.

Comment on Evaluating the Swedish Ban on the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Anna Skarhed Report by “bindel style” social research for dummies « Lo Tekk

“bindel style” social research for dummies « Lo Tekk — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:39:48 +0000

[...] in your eyes: Evaluation of Swedish anti-prostitution law offers ideology, not methodology”, “Evaluating the Swedish Ban on the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Anna Skarhed Report” and “Behind the happy face of the Swedish anti-prostitution [...]

Comment on Evaluating the Swedish Ban on the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Anna Skarhed Report by another one to prostitutes and their best friend, julie bindel « Lo Tekk

another one to prostitutes and their best friend, julie bindel « Lo Tekk — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:32:29 +0000

[...] (quoted after Bucken-Knapp, G. Evaluating the Swedish Ban on the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Anna Skarhed Report) [...]

Comment on Finland’s prostitution law and the hope of Nordic unity by Prostitution policy change as a problem-driven process | Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:04:43 +0000

[...] socio-economic and technological developments, have affected the Nordic countries fairly similarly, policy-makers have chosen different policy solutions to those problems. And even those solutions that seem similar in a technical sense are quite differently framed and [...]

Comment on Race and prostitution in Norway by Prostitution policy change as a problem-driven process | Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:49:18 +0000

[...] For instance, while changes in the sex market, triggered by geopolitical, socio-economic and technological developments, have affected the Nordic countries fairly similarly, policy-makers have chosen different policy solutions to those problems. And even those solutions that seem similar in a technical sense are quite differently framed and justified in public discourse, and have different consequences once they are to be implemented. For instance, whereas the Swedish sex purchase ban was presented as a solution to the problem of violence against women and gender inequality, Norway’s similar ban was also suggested to be a solution to the problem of Nigerian women aggressively soliciting in the streets of Oslo. [...]

Comment on Interests, women’s representation and prostitution policy reform by Prostitution policy change as a problem-driven process | Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:49:02 +0000

[...] a popluar trichotomy, interests, institutions and ideas form the basic explanatory categories of explaining policy change. Arguably, a fourth alternative rather takes its starting point in the changing issues or problems [...]