Prostitution Policy in the Nordic Region: Ambiguous Sympathies
| By: | Holmström, Charlotta, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409444268 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409472858 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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There is great interest internationally in the development of prostitution policies in the Nordic countries after Sweden, Norway and Iceland have introduced general bans against buying sex whilst selling sex remains legal. In addition, there is a partial ban against buying sex in Finland. This is a different approach from that of several other European countries, where we have seen a decriminalisation of third-party involvement in prostitution as well as to that of the USA which criminalises both the buying and selling of sexual services.
Thus the Nordic countries are often treated as representatives of a 'Nordic model' of prostitution policies.
In this book - the first on the subject - Skilbrei and Holmstr