Important debate in Westminster this afternoon about sexual exploitation and prostitution websites and

The Nordic model protects women

• not true

decriminalisation results in super sized brothels and increased trafficking

• also not true (you may be thinking of the German super-brothels which have come about as a result of legalisation not decriminalisation.)

We have to look at all women who end up in the sex trade, not just the ones who are happy with their choice.

• We consistently only ever look at the vulnerable women (addicts, alcoholics etc.) who end up in the sex industry. The rest of us are virtually unheard, mostly because we are plodding along just fine so never come into contact with charities or support workers. The majority of us are actually under-represented precisely because we are doing just fine as we are.

There should of course be support to ensure that women have a way to leave the sex industry, if they want to. But the sledgehammer approach being put forward by Champion will not help vulnerable women in any way. It'll just make things worse.
She essentially wants to rip the rug out from underneath the very people she is claiming she wants to help.

It's a pipeline that pumps women and girls in, that is only challenged by the Nordic model. It puts the needs of most women at the forefront.

The reviews on punternet are terrifying:

nordicmodelnow.org/myths-about-prostitution/myth-punters-care-about-the-women-they-buy/

The problem with decriminalisation is it does nothing to protect the unseen victims of the sex buying trade - the oblivious wives and girlfriends of Johns.

Nordic model is best for all.

Interesting link Brazen.

So many women and girls who end up in prostitution are unheard though. The Nordic model protects women, decriminalisation results in super sized brothels and increased trafficking, that's not good. We have to look at all women who end up in the sex trade, not just the ones who are happy with their choice.

Her actions are certainly implying that she does, Lumpy. Removing our ability to advertise online would give us no other option than to return to the streets or to use the 'services' of pimps.
For a lot of us, websites like Adultwork let us screen clients more effectively and keep us significantly safer than we would otherwise be. They give us the option to work independently and, most importantly, keep us off street corners (where we are much more likely to be raped, assaulted or murdered.)

She is presumably not stupid and has one would hope listened to what active, current prostitutes have to say, so I can only conclude that she does want that outcome.

Decriminalisation is still the best model for us. Certainly superior to the Nordic Model at least .
If you have the time and are genuinely interested in the facts around decriminalisation, this report will be useful reading - prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Online-Symposium-Report.pdf

I am sure she doesn't want that at all Brazen.

If you look at countries that have decriminalised sex work trafficking is up to suit the higher demand. Women in these countries are treated worse as misogyny increases. The only people making any money are the pimps and the violence against the women in the brothels is still high.

Ah yes, because removing the websites we advertise on (where we can leave feedback for clients and share information with each other) is totally going to make us safer

Again, this is moral ideology dressed up as 'protecting vulnerable women' whilst, in reality, throwing them under the big authoritarian bus.
Women like Champion would rather see us pushed back on to the streets or into the hands of pimps/brothel owners than let us have the ability to work more safely for ourselves and indoors, apparently.

Well a good thing that Trump did was sign the FOSTA bill into law earlier this year leading to the end of backpages.com and similar sites. It was a revelation to see how quickly some subreddits were banned from reddit , where services were offered seeing as website owners were now liable. Funny how the sites could do that if they had no idea of what was being sold and likely knew that a lot of people were trafficked. Even worse were all the woke bros decrying the law as sex negative, instead of focusing on the women

I see Jess Phillips has been reading out reviews from sex-buyer websites. Makes the point more powerfully than any NUS blather about prostitution being ‘the same as any other form of labour’ could.