The Nordic Model makes sex workers LESS safe | Juno Mac and Molly Smith

The Nordic Model is often seen as more progressive because it criminalises only the clients of sex workers. But the legislation prevents sex workers from working and living together, and it makes it harder for sex workers to earn money, making them LESS safe.

Juno Mac and Molly Smith are the authors of Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights.

Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive—and can the police deliver justice?

In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.