Article ‘Why I Support the Equality/Nordic Model instead of Decriminalisation of Brothel Owners and Pimps’ By Michelle Kelly
Article ‘Why I Support the Equality/Nordic Model instead of Decriminalisation of Brothel Owners and Pimps’ By Michelle Kelly
I was initially trafficked into prostitution as a young woman just out of my teens, experiencing homelessness and fleeing a domestically abusive relationship. I grew up in poverty and am from the Gypsy/Traveller community. Although I didn’t know this at the time, statistically women experiencing these areas of marginalisation are at much higher risk of being exploited within prostitution and other forms of the sex industry.
I was not trafficked with a gun to my head or by being smuggled across borders. I answered an advert in the back pages of my local paper, which to my naïve mind seemed innocent enough, for ‘paid dating,’ honestly believing I wasn’t being expected to do anything that I wasn’t comfortable with. The fact that the advert was legally placed in the press seemed to me to indicate that it must be above board. In fact, my ‘interview’ consisted of being raped by the man who would become my trafficker, and then driven to my first ‘client.’ I was in a state of shock and severe trauma the whole time…”
Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/09/05/why-i-support-the-equality-nordic-model-instead-of-decriminalisation-of-brothel-owners-and-pimps/
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Dec 17 2024, 12:44 AM #1“I’m here today to talk to you about a topic that is incredibly important to me as a survivor of sex trafficking, sexual exploitation and prostitution. I’m going to begin by explaining my background and then why I believe a Nordic or Equality Model framework to be the way forward rather than the New Zealand model, which I believe has been suggested as an alternative.
I was initially trafficked into prostitution as a young woman just out of my teens, experiencing homelessness and fleeing a domestically abusive relationship. I grew up in poverty and am from the Gypsy/Traveller community. Although I didn’t know this at the time, statistically women experiencing these areas of marginalisation are at much higher risk of being exploited within prostitution and other forms of the sex industry.
I was not trafficked with a gun to my head or by being smuggled across borders. I answered an advert in the back pages of my local paper, which to my naïve mind seemed innocent enough, for ‘paid dating,’ honestly believing I wasn’t being expected to do anything that I wasn’t comfortable with. The fact that the advert was legally placed in the press seemed to me to indicate that it must be above board. In fact, my ‘interview’ consisted of being raped by the man who would become my trafficker, and then driven to my first ‘client.’ I was in a state of shock and severe trauma the whole time…”
Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2023/09/05/why-i-support-the-equality-nordic-model-instead-of-decriminalisation-of-brothel-owners-and-pimps/