Laws that sex workers really want - anti-Nordic-model TED talk

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A friend of mine just posted this video - it's a TED talk by a sex worker discussing how a NZ model is what (according to her) pretty much all sex workers want. She discredits full and partial criminalisation of sex work - which I quite agree with. She also talks about how the Nordic model is really bad for sex workers, whereas I support the Nordic model. But she made some interesting points - particularly how the Nordic model does not reduce the demand for sex work, it just makes it more dangerous and fosters more negative attitudes to sex workers. Is this really true?

I'd be really interested to hear people's thoughts about it. If you want to skip to what she says about the Nordic model, it starts at about 6 minutes in.

www.ted.com/talks/juno_mac_the_laws_that_sex_workers_really_want

I don't know if anyone saw this, I have to say that I didn't watch comic relief last night, but this was one of the appeals on it.

From some of Tango's evidence.

This was reflected in a 1982 survey of 200 current and former juvenile and adult street sex workers in the San Francisco area in which the average age of first intercourse was 13.5 years, as well as in other surveys. But entry in the sex trade is more likely to be between 15 and 16 years old.

So that's just fine then - makes all the difference.

tango has a strange position. Because there is some disagreement with statistics, he disagrees with our posts. But his own statistics support our position (45% of prostitutes say they would leave today if they could, average age at entry is still illegal). Weird. Probably just a gish gallop as M0stly says