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    Article from evangelicalfocus.com, Evangelical Christians........Experts in the vice of Lying



    Sweden and France launch a common strategy to criminalize the purchase of sex in Europe “Prostitution should never be considered a job”, the Foreign Ministries say in a joint document. Both countries have successfully adopted the ‘Nordic Model’ to fight sex trafficking.

    AUTHOR Evangelical Focus PARIS 18 MARCH 2019 11:00 h GMT+1

    Sweden and France criminalize the demand for paid sex and protect prostituted women. / Unsplash, CC0 Sweden, the country that has lead the fight against sex trafficking and prostitution, has been joined by France in a new effort to persuade European countries about the need to criminalize the demand of paid sex. France adopted the known as ‘Nordic Model’ to fight the sexual exploitation of women in 2016, and started to criminalise clients rather than prostituted women. Figures showed that 85% of prostitutes in the country were victims of human trafficking. The law also offered women temporary residence permits if they agreed to find jobs outside the world of prostitution. Now both countries have launched a common effort to persuade other countries (including those following opposite strategies such as Germany and the Netherlands) about the “need to reduce the demand for girls and women in prostitution”. “The Government of France and the Government of Sweden are proud to announce our joint decision to develop a common strategy for combating human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Europe and globally”, the Foreign Ministries of both countries announced on March 8th, the International Woman’s Day.


    The two governments underline “the clear nexus between trafficking for sexual exploitation and prostitution”, which is “well described in numerous studies”. ‘PROSTITUTION IS NOT A JOB’ There is no space for doubt in the approach to prostitution. “Trafficking for sexual exploitation will continue as long as there is a demand for girls and women in prostitution. Therefore, focusing on reducing demand will be an important measure for combating trafficking for sexual exploitation, for combating violence against women and children and for enhanced gender equality”, they say. Therefore, “France and Sweden have taken a clear position against normalizing prostitution as work. Our view is that prostitution should always be perceived as an exploitation of someone’s vulnerability – thus prostitution should never be considered a job”. [Joint statement of the Foreign Ministries of Sweden and France.] Joint statement of the Foreign Ministries of Sweden and France. LEGALISATION? “NOT A SOLUTION” Other countries in Europe have legalised prostitution, including Germany and the Netherlands. A position that France and Sweden oppose. “To consider prostitution as legal ‘sex work’, decriminalizing the sex industry in general and making procuring legal is not a solution to keeping women and children in vulnerable situations safe from violence and exploitation, but has the opposite effect and expose them to higher level of violence, while at the same time encouraging prostitution markets — and thus the number of women and children suffering abuse — to grow”, the document says. “FOREFRONT OF OUR COMMON ADVOCACY” Both Sweden and France “are convinced that criminalizing the purchase of sex would be a very important step” towards achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. “We will therefore put this agenda in the forefront of our common advocacy for combating trafficking for sexual exploitation in Europe and globally”. KEY SHIFT IN EUROPE Sweden was the first country to pass a law to reduce the demand of prostitution in a shift through which clients started to be targeted – in 1999. In the last twenty years, other countries have adopted the ‘Nordic Model’: Norway in 2008, Iceland in 2009, and Northern Ireland in 2015. In 2016, the European Parliament approved the Resolution 2013/2103(INI) calling for these kind of laws to be adopted throughout the continent. EVANGELICALS HELP

    LEAD THE FIGHT FOR AWARENESS Among evangelical Christians in Europe, the ‘Nordic Model’ is seen as the best way to fight sexual slavery. Hundreds of churches and organizations advocate against prostitution and ask the government to protect women and children. In 2017, over 200 people representing dozens of European Christians organizations involved in the fight against human trafficking met in Berlin (Germany).

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    Sweden and France launch a common strategy to criminalize the purchase of sex in Europe

    Prostitution should never be considered a job”, the Foreign Ministries say in a joint document.

    Both countries have successfully adopted the ‘Nordic Model’ to fight sex trafficking.

    AUTHOR Evangelical Focus PARIS 18 MARCH 2019 11:00 h GMT+1

    Sweden and France criminalize the demand for paid sex and protect prostituted women

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    : Why ?

    : ‘successfully’ ?? Trafficking figures are spiking in every single country where the ‘Nordic Model’s been introduced.

    : protect them . Really !? How ? Ruhama : how many individuals have you helped just This year in exchange for

    your funding €€€ ?


    The hypocrisy sickens me .
    I do what I want. I cannot do otherwise.

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    Moral Panics and Boundary Crises

    I examine some of the deeper meanings behind the common themes identified in chapter two. In particular, I will focus on how 'white slavery' and 'trafficking in women' narratives express deeper fears and anxieties about women's sexuality and independence, and racist and nationalist fears of 'the other'. There are other fears and anxieties that are important but beyond the scope of this paper to address, including the link between 'trafficking in women' discourses and a wider repressive moral agenda, particularly around child sexuality; and the intersections between discourses of disease --syphilis and AIDS -- and 'white slavery' and 'trafficking in women'.

    Behind the myth

    The trigger for the 'white slavery' panic was the huge increase in migration between 1860 and the outbreak of the first world war, of which women formed a large part. The campaign against 'white slavery' coincided with the mass migration of thousands of women from Europe and Russia to the America's, South Africa, other parts of Europe, and Asia (Bristow 1982, Guy 1992). This increase was facilitated by the colonialism of the 'Pax Britannia', which made travel from the centre to the periphery a possibility for millions of working class people. It was also facilitated by new technology, especially the steamship and telegraph (Bristow 1977: 177). Another factor contributing to the widespread panic was the calculated use of the emotions generated by images of 'white slaves' to garner support for the repression of prostitution (Walkowitz 1980, Gibson 1986, Corbin 1990, Grittner 1990). Because of the lurid nature and sensationalism of 'white slavery', it gained more support than abolitionism ever could: Transformation of an individual concern into a "public problem" and onto the political agenda is never easy, but the ability to tie an issue to symbolically charged language can improve its chances of success (Grittner 1990: 7).But behind these material/political realities, other, deeper fears underlay the 'white slavery' panic. Grittner, in his analysis of the American myth of white slavery, describes it in terms of a 'moral panic' as defined by Stan Cohen: Societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. A condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests; its nature is presented in a stylised and stereotypical fashion by the mass media; the moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other right-thinking people; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnosis and solutions; ways of coping are evolved or (more often) reverted to. ... sometimes the panic is passed over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective memory; at other times it has more serious and long-lasting repercussions and might produce such changes as those in legal and social policy or even in the way society conceives itself (Cohen cited in Grittner 1990: 64).While the discourse on white slavery ostensibly was about the protection of women from (male) violence, to a large extent, the welfare of the 'white slaves' was peripheral to the discourse. A supposed threat to women's safety served as a marker of and metaphor for other fears, among them fear of women's growing independence, the breakdown of the family, and loss of national identity through the influx of immigrants.

    Link to full article http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/library/doezema1

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    any historian would know it only makes things worse

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    So France and Sweden see it as their duty to impose their laws onto other countries. How far up your own ass can you get?

    You don't see German politicians campaigning for legalisation of the sex industry across Europe.

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