Article A step towards a Europe free from prostitution
Article A step towards a Europe free from prostitution
On 14 September 2023, the European Parliament voted to support a resolution that defines prostitution as a form of violence and both a cause and a consequence of the persisting inequality between women and men. The resolution encourages member states to adopt an approach to prostitution based on reducing men’s demand for prostitution, providing all those caught up within the prostitution system with support and exit services, decriminalising the selling of sex, and criminalising the purchase of sex and third parties profiting from the prostitution of others. In other words, a Nordic Model (aka Equality Model) approach. In this article, Sian, a survivor of prostitution, explains how it felt when she heard the news.
In this article, Sian, a prostitution survivor in the Nordic Model Now! group, responds to the news at the time.
Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/09/22/a-step-towards-a-europe-free-from-prostitution/