Sweden’s Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn’t Anyone Tried This Before?
In a centuries deep sea of clichés despairing that ‘prostitution will always be with us’, one country’s success stands out as a solitary beacon lighting…
Assessing Evidence, Arguments, and Inequality in Bedford v. Canada
Bedford v. Canada ruled that parliament could not impose on where or when prostitution is conducted, as long as it does not infringe on others’ constitutional rights. Max Waltman discusses the evidence provided and how it does not support the decision of the court.
Arguments for and against Prostitution Including Arguments for and against the Swedish Prostitution Law
This 58 page booklet, translated from Swedish to English by Kvinnofronten/The Women’s Front, Sweden, 2013, can be downloaded here. Topics include what is prostitution: “buying sex…
Strip Clubs: Where Prostitution and Trafficking Happen
In hundreds of research interviews, sex buyers tell us that they can always find minor girls in strip clubs. A 15-year-old girl who had gone…
Kudos to Corpus Christi Texas and to Captain Floyd Simpson
Women in Corpus Christi prostitution are offered services, not arrested. The police understand that any woman who is pimp-controlled is a trafficking victim. Congratulations from…
Legalized Prostitution in Amsterdam “has never worked” says a Survivor
Despite claims that legalization helps women in prostitution, in Amsterdam it has led to increases in organized crime and trafficking and has created an environment…
“End Demand” Works, Evidence Shows
Almost everyone in the field is discussing legal approaches toward the related scourges of human trafficking and prostitution. Recognizing that prostitution is a form of…
New law criminalizing sex buyers is an important step to abolishing sexual exploitation in Israel
On Sunday, February 12, 2012 the Ministerial Committee for Legislation gave its initial approval to a new bill that targets sex buyers in Israel. The…
Under New Law, France Would No Longer Be Sexual Playground of Men Like Dominique Strauss-Kahn
In the aftermath of the scandal surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn last year, the French National Assembly signed a Resolution that “reaffirms the abolitionist position of France,…
Prohibiting Sex Purchasing and Ending Trafficking: The Swedish Prostitution Law (2011)
This article by Max Waltman analyzes the Swedish prostitution law from 1999, which criminalized the sex buyer and decriminalized prostituted persons. He analyzes this law…
Against Prostitution and Human Trafficking for Sexual Purposes (Sweden)
Prostitution and human trafficking are sustained by demand. Prostitution and human trafficking for sexual purposes represent a serious obstacle to social equality, to gender equality…
Trafficking, Prostitution and the Sex Industry: The Nordic Legal Model
There is no doubt that the Nordic countries lead the world on most indicators of gender equality. Gender equality experts and advocates have long pointed out that in economics, politics and social services, the Nordic countries top the charts.
Prostitution Policy Recommendations to the City of San Francisco
Strongly criminalizing johns is the most effective legal approach to date to the harms of violence and exploitation that prostitution inflicts on those used in…
The Swedish Law that Prohibits the Purchase of Sexual Services: Best Practices for Prevention of Prostitution and Trafficking in Human Beings
After several years of public debate initiated by the Swedish women’s movement, the Law That Prohibits the Purchase of Sexual Services came into force on…
Streets Apart
In the debate about prostitution, there are those, like the Dutch, who advocate legalising it, and those, like the Swedes, who want to get women…
One Man in Eight Has Bought Sex
In 1999, Sweden passed legislation that criminalized the purchase of sexual services, which in essence decriminalized prostituted persons and placed penalties only on the buyers,…
The 1999 Swedish Law on Prostitution
This law is a brilliant example of how a truly progressive society addresses prostitution: the law decriminalizes the prostitute but criminalizes customers, pimps, and traffickers….