I didn’t finish reading the article yet because I was so shocked to read that Switzerland legalized prostitution in 1942. You know, thirty years before swiss women gained the right to vote. What a progressive place /s.
Brilliant reporting. What an absolute catastrophe Switzerland on prostitution. I hope this is being published in widely circulated Swiss publications as well.
Your work has made me change my view on this issue. I had friends/family involved in the sex industry and thought that the Nordic Model/abolition was in some way judgemental of women or paternalistic. I was adamant in my support for decriminalisation, I think I was emotionally responding to other views as if they were insulting to the people I knew. I was wrong and thank you for helping me to see it.
"If a government resists seeing women as full human beings deserving of equal voting rights, it will certainly resist looking at the sex trade as a manifestation of inequality and violence against women."
I'm honestly shocked by your article. Switzerland enjoys an international reputation as a country committed to human rights. I knew about the late arrival of women's voting rights, but not about this approach to making sure that men have safe and legal access to prostituted, and often trafficked women. A few years ago, I had a very heated argument (at a Labour Party conference) with two women, who insisted that women had every right to work as sex workers (sic) and that the Nordic model would deter men from buying sex, thus limiting the market! I'm going to send them this article. I'll let you know if I get a response.
Thoroughly shocking to read. I had presumed that Switzerland was a forward thinking country. Never knew that women have only gained voting rights in my own lifetime. It makes sense that where women have been given little advocacy for voting choice that they would be treated as chattel by the Government too. I will never visit such a country. Makes my skin crawl.
I didn’t finish reading the article yet because I was so shocked to read that Switzerland legalized prostitution in 1942. You know, thirty years before swiss women gained the right to vote. What a progressive place /s.
Brilliant reporting. What an absolute catastrophe Switzerland on prostitution. I hope this is being published in widely circulated Swiss publications as well.
Your work has made me change my view on this issue. I had friends/family involved in the sex industry and thought that the Nordic Model/abolition was in some way judgemental of women or paternalistic. I was adamant in my support for decriminalisation, I think I was emotionally responding to other views as if they were insulting to the people I knew. I was wrong and thank you for helping me to see it.
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"If a government resists seeing women as full human beings deserving of equal voting rights, it will certainly resist looking at the sex trade as a manifestation of inequality and violence against women."
I'm honestly shocked by your article. Switzerland enjoys an international reputation as a country committed to human rights. I knew about the late arrival of women's voting rights, but not about this approach to making sure that men have safe and legal access to prostituted, and often trafficked women. A few years ago, I had a very heated argument (at a Labour Party conference) with two women, who insisted that women had every right to work as sex workers (sic) and that the Nordic model would deter men from buying sex, thus limiting the market! I'm going to send them this article. I'll let you know if I get a response.
Thank you, Sister.
Wonderful, terrifying, essential reporting.
Thoroughly shocking to read. I had presumed that Switzerland was a forward thinking country. Never knew that women have only gained voting rights in my own lifetime. It makes sense that where women have been given little advocacy for voting choice that they would be treated as chattel by the Government too. I will never visit such a country. Makes my skin crawl.