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A poster from a campaign calling for the purchase of sex to be criminalised, Glasgow, 2009
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“SEX workers across the world are demanding decriminalisation” — a claim made by article after article in the media recently.
I want to point out: not all “sex workers.” Some of us support the Nordic model — a model pioneered by Sweden in 1999, when it became the first country to introduce a law making it illegal to pay for sex, but not to be a prostitute.
This is also known as the “Sex Buyer Law.” Northern Ireland was the first part of the UK to adopt the Sex Buyer Law in June 2015; a law under which clients can be prosecuted, but prostitution itself is decriminalised.
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