Edit to add my opinion so I’m not just replying “I agree” to 90% of comments. I think it should be legal, properly regulated, taxed and viewed as a profession. I haven’t personally engaged in it but I have no moral objection to it. I do hate the common sentiment that it was the individual’s “only option” though.
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I’m worried that if buyers demand to practice in secret, it becomes practically impossible to regulate and for sex workers to implement proper occupational safety practices. For example, security guards to protect them from violent customers.
That’s a part of the problem… also this ‘protective’ approach labels prostiutes per se as victims and denys them autonomy.
Here are two intersting reads about ‘the nordic model’ :
https://www.academia.edu/50493737/The_Nordic_Model_in_Europe_Prostitution_Trafficking_and_Neo_Abolitionism
https://scholar.google.de/scholar?as_ylo=2025&q=nordic+model+of+prostitution&hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5#d=gs_qabs&t=1770060948847&u=%23p%3Db8BF5LYTIuwJ
Over all it seems like ‘the nordic model’ doesn’t make prostiution disappear but reduces its general visibility… rather to the worse for men and women working (or being forced to worked) in this profession.
Imho: This was forceable… declaring things illegal doesn’t make them disappear, being it postitution (for which the efffort was made many times in history) or e.g. alcohol.
This sounds like a good approach, and I would’ve loved for this to work, but unfortunately, this approach does not reduce harm to sex workers, but increases it.
Amnesty International has found that Nordic model laws caused sex workers to face ongoing risk of police harassment, client violence, discrimination, eviction, and exploitation..
A study by the UK parliament has found that it just pushes people into the black market, with disastrous effects for the workers, because they are now extremely difficult to reach and thus protect by the authorities.
Figures provided by National Ugly Mugs, a service which allows sex workers to confidentially report incidents of abuse and crime, showed that reports of abuse and crime against prostitutes greatly increased after Ireland’s adoption of the Nordic model approach to prostitution by criminalizing the purchase of sexual services. The figures stated that crimes against prostitutes increased by 90%, with violent crime increasing by 92%.
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In France, it’s a bit more complicated.
According to the law anything implying money with a sex worker can be considered as pimping (which is obviously a criminal offense). You have a friend who is sex worker and they buy you a drink ? You’re a pimp. You’re a sex worker and you want to rent a flat? That’s gonna be hard, because your landlord could be considered as a pimp.
Even banks refuse to open accounts to sex workers. A french porn actress (Khalamite) is an activist on the subject and made a YT video about that a few time ago.