Decriminalise now, and no to the Nordic Model
2024-05-03
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Sex work encompasses a wide range of professions, including erotic dancing, nude modeling, pornography, web cam modeling, sugar dating (an arrangement where money or material goods are exchanged for companionship and possibly intimacy), and full-service street or escort work.
There’s a complex legal landscape surrounding sex work, ranging from legality to criminalization. While crimina .....
Nine arrested over alleged 'sexual exploitation and human trafficking offences'
2024-03-22
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Officers from West Midlands Police, collaborating with the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (WMROCU), Spanish National Police, and the National Crime Agency (NCA), executed warrants following an extensive investigation into an escort agency offering paid sexual services in the United Kingdom and Spain.
The investigation alleges that the leaders of the organized crime group orchest .....
What Country Has The Most Prostitution: A Comprehensive Analysis
2023-08-16
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Prostitution, often referred to as the “world’s oldest profession,” is a persistent phenomenon that has existed in various forms across different cultures, societies, and locations throughout history. However, the moral and legal status of prostitution varies widely among countries, and so does its prevalence. A relevant question that emerges is: which country has the highest ra .....
Spain Debates Dangerous Sex Work Law
2023-01-27
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Spanish lawmakers should reject a potential law criminalizing sex work that is being debated in parliament. Research across Europe consistently shows that laws criminalizing the purchase of sex, known as the Nordic Model, increase sexual violence and harassment against sex workers, while having no demonstrable effect on human trafficking or the demand for sex. .....
Spain's escort crackdown 'would push the issue further underground'
2022-07-05
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Linda came to Spain 23 years ago after getting “a tip” that it was a good place to make money as a sex worker.
Pregnant by a partner who abandoned her back in her native Mexico, she was taken on by a sex club in Murcia on the Mediterranean coast.
“They gave me work and a place to live for me and my daughter when she was born,” she told Euronews. &l .....
Spain's sex trade is tale of two halves as PM tries to make prostitution illegal
2022-04-29
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The door on a well-to-do street in central Barcelona looks much like any other. The large wooden frame and wrought iron panels discreetly blending in with the other apartments.
But behind the door is a brothel - part of Spain’s booming sex industry. What they do there is under threat as the country’s socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez tries to make prostitution illegal.
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Criminalisation won’t help Spanish sex workers, says Saskia Murphy
2021-11-01
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Sex work was decriminalised in Spain in 1995, and since then the industry has boomed. In 2016 the UN estimated the country’s sex industry was worth €3.7bn (£3.1bn), and it is estimated that around 300,000 women work in the country’s brothels and red light districts.
Demand is huge. One survey conducted in 2008 found that 78 per cent of Spanish people consider prostitut .....
Spanish PM vows to 'abolish' prostitution
2021-10-19
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The Spanish PM proposes to end prostitution in Spain. So he is going to bring in the discredited Nordic Model. So that will be the end of the women who work on streets in full view of everyone, the end of the safe brothels. Spain will become dangerous like Ireland and Sweden, with the criminals preying on sex workers. .....
Spain’s top court reinstates first sex workers’ union
2021-06-03
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Spanish sex workers have the right to form their own union, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, overturning an earlier court decision ordering the dissolution of Spain's first such labour organisation.
Known as OTRAS (or “the Sex Workers’ Organisation”), the union was discretely set up in August 2018 but was closed three months later by order of the National Court follow .....
Alicante Brothel Shut Down For Breaching Covid Regulations
2021-01-25
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A brothel in Alicante where several of the sex workers had been diagnosed with Covid and continued working has been shut down in Alicante city for several breaches in coronavirus regulations. The premises was found to be operating contrary to new government regulations, issued by the president of the Valencian government, Ximo Puig, on Tuesday, January 19.
In total, nineteen people were sanc .....