its ridiculous people still have a hard-on for the nordic model. they just think "how clever! we solved it ya'll!"

any effort rooted in the prohibition of sex work will harm workers, and these efforts are based on enacting their discomfort with men having increased access to transactional sex as a normal option.

this model simply exacerbates trafficking by removing one of the main ways exploitation is reported at all - by workers confiding in customers they've built rapport with!

it has to be harmonized as a labor issue, rooted in harm reduction.

edit: there it is

>“The point of this whole thing is to decrease the demand for commercial sex,” said Maine state Rep. Lois Reckitt, D., who sponsored the bill,