Eliza Orlins, Manhattan DA candidate, has put forward a decrim of sex work policy stating “As District Attorney I will advocate for the decrim of consensual sex work. This will begin with declining to prosecute all cases of consensual sex work.” Read more:
Nordic Criminal model lobbyists post unfounded & inflammatory things about sex work then cry bullying when sex workers justifiably respond en masse to refute misinfo. They then use this to maintain their farce claiming they're too intimidated to speak..while they keep speaking
@NYDailyNews
These are NOT SW rights groups and they're not pushing decrim. They're pushing the
#NordicCriminalModel
that sees sex workers unable to access their rights and safety. It makes violence against sex workers increase and makes trafficking harder to fight.
Scottish campaigners call for lawmakers to consult with sex workers & reject the Nordic Criminal policy proposed as recent statistics from Ireland and France show sharp increases in violence against workers under the model:
#DecrimSA
#SexWorkIsWork
"I understand why instinctively criminalising the buyer makes sense to people but it is just not rooted in evidence."
PUT IT ON REPEAT! Criminalisation is not rooted in evidence 🙌
#DecrimSA
#SexWorkIsWork
#SexWorkersNeedRights
No one should be pushed into sex work by poverty. But that’s the reality for many women in a cost of living crisis.
Criminalisation makes the industry more dangerous and harder to leave.
The solution is to fully decriminalise it + tackle the root causes.
Me on
@Channel4News
👇🏽
16 of the 24 members that did not support the Decrim of Sex Work Bill refused to meet with sex workers or sex worker organisations.
SIDAC,
@sexindustrynetw
& sex worker constituents reach out to each these members but their voices were ignored.
#SexWorkersWillBeHeard
#DecrimSA
The
#NordicModel
is NOT decrim
The Swedish Model is NOT decrim
The
#EqualityModel
is NOT decrim
They are ALL just the same criminalisation model rebranded by non-sex workers/prohibitionists that want to discriminate against and marginalise sex workers
#DecrimSA
80 academics, doctors, lawyers have lodged submissions calling for the repeal of Nordic Criminal model in Ireland. Many have cited the increase to rates of violence against sex workers as well as the denial of sex workers' human rights. Read more:
@benjaminrhood
Are you (still) quoting 20 year old figures for a debunked Farley 'study' that has been rejected by NZ Parliament, Scottish Parliament & the Supreme Court of Canada - That also never had anything to do with any Australian sex industry? Why not talk to actual sex workers in SA 🤔
@NicolaCentofan1
There's no evidence to support claims made on the Nordic Criminal Model but there's plenty of evidence that it's dangerous for sex workers. You refuse to listen to sex workers & refuse not to conflate trafficking with sex work because you don't understand consent
#SexWorkIsWork
Nordic CRIMINAL Model is NOT decriminalisation at all! Australian Christian Lobby are trying to market it differently but the laws criminalise sex work with laws designed to make life so hard for sex workers they are forced out of work
#SexWorkIsWork
#SAparli
Over 80 academics, lawyers, doctors, criminologists have lodged a submission advocating repealing Ireland's Nordic Criminal Model sex work laws, which have seen a 92% increase in violence against sex workers. Read more:
#NoNCM
#SAparli
#SexWorkIsWork
“Policing the sex industry creates special opportunities for police officers to engage in unethical conduct, such as taking payments in exchange for non-enforcement, or abusing their position of power. Risks are further enhanced because sex workers and their clients are in (1/3)
THE AUSTRALIAN SEX INDUSTRY IS BREAKING THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW! So proud of all the media coverage we have been doing of late! Keep up the good fight everyone! ☂️
@scarletalliance
@DecrimQLD
#SWOPNT
@NadaDeCat
The
#NordicCriminalModel
was developed from a Swedish Parliamentary Committee that stated in their report (1997):
"No prostitution can be of voluntary nature and all sex workers are victims"
This model was never designed with sex workers health and well-being in mind.
Sex workers charged for working together for safety have their charges DROPPED! English Collective of Prostitutes fought against the Crown Prosecution Service who were accused of extortion for forcing the workers to hand over all their earnings. READ MORE:
Nicola Centofanti's "Prostitution Law Reform" Bill - like Nordic Criminal models before it - forces sex workers to work alone & isolates workers from support. It would make sex work unsafe & risk exposing sex workers to violence
#DecrimSA
#SexWorkIsWork
The Nordic Model, despite numerous rebrands, still causes significant harm to sex workers.
Sex workers cannot work together for safety, and still bear the brunt of criminalisation.
“We’ve created an environment which is absolutely perfect for abusing sex workers.”
It's is tremendously exciting to see hard work pay off for advocates in VIC! The Andrews Gov moves to decrim sex work to make it safe for workers 👏👏👏Will SA be next?
Read more:
#DecrimSA
#SexWorkIsWork
This Bill introduced by Nordic Model campaigner Nicola Centofanti MLC isn't publicly available a week after it was read a 2nd time so not only were workers not consulted before it was done, we can't even see how it will impact them!!
#DecrimSA
#SexWorkIsWork
#NoToNordic
Not again. Anti-sex work MP in South Australia tables new 'rescue' bill to abolish sex work entirely. Report by
@Duncanevans01
for
@newscomauHQ
@SidacC
"SA Liberal Nicola Centofanti introduces new Bill to help sex workers leave industry"
Out of touch celebrities that refuse to acknowledge the voices of sex workers should not be determining policy! They may be trying to market the Nordic Criminal Model as "equality" but a 92% increase to violence against sex workers is not equality.
Time & time again sex workers organise for full decriminalisation but we get it, some MPs keep dismissing them using a 20+ year old quote that has nothing to do with the Australian sex industry & was dismissed as unethical & biased by Parliaments & a Supreme Court
#DecrimSA
What is the Nordic Model?
The Nordic Model, that was pioneered in Sweden, is the full decriminalisation of those who are prostituted.
It provides exiting support, including housing, legal advice, rehabilitation, and more to help those wanting to leave sex work to do so.
But,
Well looks like the Nordic Criminal Model had another rebrand! The Swedish/Nordic/End-Demand/now "Equality" Model focuses on changing its name so much because there's still absolutely no evidence to support any of its claimed effects
#SexWorkIsWork
✊💜Adopt the Equality Model now!
Following the adoption of the report on prostitution by
@EP_GenderEqual
, we had the pleasure to meet some of the most vocal MEPs supporting the abolitionist stance and choosing to be on the side of survivors, a crucial step to
#EndVAWG
!
Did you know: the 2015 Parliamentary Select Committee on Sex Work Law Reform found NO evidence of criminal activity in the SA sex industry?
Sex work is work. Sex workers are workers. They need their rights. SA NEEDS DECRIM
#DecrimSA
#SexWorkersNeedRights
#SAparli
Qld looks set to leave SA behind in the old days! "Decriminalisation is a low-cost, high-compliance, evidence-based model & this reform brings Qld in line with best practice already implemented in other jurisdictions" - Janelle Fawkes-Decrim QLD
#SWIW
❤️
Are you an Australian media outlet planning to report on the latest Parliament House scandal? Please use the appropriate language regardless of who the main subjects of the story are. Language is powerful. Sex workers are workers because
#SexWorkIsWork
#auspoll
Hoping the SA ALP caucus respects the motion passed unanimously at the ALP State Convention last month rejecting the Nordic Model and calling for support of the full decriminalisation of Sex Work in SA. A motion I was proud to second as an
@ASUnion_SANT
Deleagte to convention
☂️ Call out:
#RT
We are looking for soundbites from the sex work community. Who are sex workers? Please tweet at us your answers. We will use them for our promotional material and info sheets. We will not publish your names. ☂️
#sexwork
#whoaresexworkers
#smashstigma
During the speeches today no less than 3 officially elected members of
#SAparli
told lies & spread misinformation about the effects of
#DecrimSexWork
. Why are they not accountable for continuing falsehoods about a community of marginalised worker while legislating those workers?
@MLCGame
We as a society must recognise & safeguard the workers rights of everyone by implementing evidence-based policy of the decriminialisation of sex work. Religiously motivated criminalisation doesn't achieve any of its claimed goals & it puts workers at risk
Please
#RT
& support us in our plight to Decriminalise sex work in South Australia. If you're curious to find out more, please follow the link below and join us for an evening with the 'Dames of Decrim' featuring Julie Bates AO and Dame Catherine Healey!
Head of Swedish Trafficking Unit Ann Martin: "“I think of course the law has negative consequences for women in prostitution but that’s also the effect that we want to achieve with the law... It shouldn’t be as easy as it was before to go out and sell sex”.
#SexWorkIsWork
#NoNCM
Sex work has existed for all of recorded human history. Sex worker continue to work under criminalisation. The only thing criminalising sex work does is remove sex workers' right to bodily autonomy & workers protections and putting workers at risk
#SexWorkIsWork
@SidacC
So as a society we just accept women selling themselves for sex because there is a cost of living crisis? I think that's wrong. As a society we should be doing everything to get women out of sex work and definitely not decriminalising men who take advantage of their situation.
@peregrine_dave
@NadiaWhittomeMP
@Channel4News
It has been talked about & researched at least since the global sex worker rights movement started in the 1970s. The evidence all points to decriminialising sex work & recognising sex work as the work it is!
#SexWorkIsWork
Only decriminalising sex work will improve sex worker's safety & access to rights! Learn more about the difference between decriminalising & legalising sex work at 👈
#SexWorkIsWork
#DecrimSA
#SAparli
The Nordic Criminal model fails sex workers & trafficking victims. These laws allowed for violations of trafficking victims' rights. These victims of sexual servitude were charged & deported NOT rescued, provided support or services like lobbyists claim
#DecrimSA
#SAparli
An important decision by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on trafficking and sexual exploitation of Filipino women in South Korea.
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers ☂️
WHO reports that under a criminalisation model, like SA's, sex workers are at three times the risk of experiencing violence. We need to repeal sex work offences to ensure sex workers' safety
#SAparli
#IDEVASW2020
Instead of listening to & trying to understand why sex workers don't want the Nordic Criminal model
@benjaminrhood
has hidden their replies & closed comments for the very people he says he's speaking for! Listen to sex workers
#SexWorkIsWork
#SexWorkersNeedsRights
#DecrimSA
Time & time again sex workers organise for full decriminalisation but we get it, some MPs keep dismissing them using a 20+ year old quote that has nothing to do with the Australian sex industry & was dismissed as unethical & biased by Parliaments & a Supreme Court
#DecrimSA
Julie Bindel continues to claim the title of "feminist" while they simultaneously working to ensure 'bad women' who choose sex work have their rights to agency, autonomy, freedom of employment, & political participation systematically challenged & removed
@spectator
Women have no individual autonomy, we have no agency in our actions, we are mere objects to be acted upon by men, says “noted feminist” Julie Bindle 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Pls share far and wide to show MPs that sex workers, allies & the public support sec worker rights 💪
Fill in your street and suburb to find your local member & send them a letter supporting decrim
One of the most frustrating parts of evidence-based advocacy is when MPs tell you they will listen to & prioritise lived experience but they actually ignore it to hold onto unfounded views formed before they entered parliament
#DecrimSA
#SAparli
@MLCGame
I thought you wanted to listen to lived experience & the community effected but now you're listening to a career lobbyist that openly admits to ignoring sex workers?
We love and appreciate all the sex workers who have put their blood, sweat and tears into this campaign. We see you! 😘
@sexindustrynetw
@scarletalliance
Sex workers in SA fear surveillance and prosecution because it happens when other sex workers have reported crimes. Criminalisation makes sex workers unsafe and they fear SA police the most. The
#NordicCriminalModel
has the same effect
#DecrimSA
#SexWorkersWillBeHeard
We will have a statement about this shortly. Sex workers are afraid to come forward after being attacked because they fear surveillance or prosecution. We want to work with the Gardaí to ensure the safety of workers
#DecrimForSafety
#SupportSafeSexWork
@JacciStoyle
Misogynists are misogynists & should not be centred in the discussion on human & workers' rights & the rights violations causes by the Nordic Criminal model. Disingenuous utilisation of vulgar misogynists to continue to silence sex workers is peak anti-feminist.
Sex worker across Australia are struggling to survive the COVID-19 shut down as they have been abandoned by governments. This is despite sex workers being incredibly active during the bushfire crisis and raising funds for those in need
#SexWorkIsWork
The Nordic Criminal model has seen 200% increase to the rate of sex workers experiencing threatening behaviour and a 677% increase to the rate of sex workers receiving abusive calls. This model is a failure!
#NoNCM
#DecrimSA
#SAparli
RIP Stormy Summers ❤️ Stormy's lifetime of advocacy for SA
#SexWorkersRights
will always be legendary & we hope her memory inspires South Australia to FINALLY
#DecrimSexWork
in 2024. Read more about Stormy's life 👉
A drawing by Molly Crabapple for the Black Sex Workers Collective for protests, advocacy-oriented exhibitions, and emergency fundraisers that took place on International Sex Workers’ Day in opposition to FOSTA-SESTA
#DecrimSA
#SexWorkIsWork
"Why is using sex to sell OK and selling sex isn’t?”
“Most sex workers are mothers supporting families. Outlaw poverty not prostitutes” These posters appeared on the London Tube
READ MORE:
#DecrimSA
#SexWorkIsWork
The New Zealand Prostitutes Collective worked with the NZ Government to ensure sex worker were not left behind in the country's re-open plans. NZ Sex workers will be returning to work in stage 2 of the re-open schedule
#DecrimSA
#AusPol
Read more:
The facts don't lie! The Nordic Criminal model does not protect sex workers. Ireland have seen a 200% increase in sex worker experiencing threatening behaviour & 677% increase in sex workers experiencing abusive calls
#SexWorkersNeedRights
#SAparli
#DecrimSA
@seanamulcahy
This isn't the first SWERF session included in a SAlt Marxism Conference. Sex workers protested a similar session last year & have asked organisers about how sex workers were involved this year but no response. Extremely disappointing to see SAlt unsupportive of workers' rights