Women's
Health, Studies, and Feminism
Sex Work: Scandinavia and Nordic Council Countries
Index
Johanna Sirkiä: Prostitution laws in Finland and Sweden. Salli 2003 (rtf)
Regard sex work as any kind of work
Joint statement by VIP, PION, SALLI, SANS Expressen July
2007 “Se sex som vilket
job som helst”
PION 7 Rose Alliance. When purchase of sex is a crime. IHRA
Conference 2011 (Word)
Research
Anne Maria Holli: Debating prostitution/trafficking in Sweden and
Finland. 2004 (pdf)
Nordisk tidsskift
for Kriminalvidenskab 92(1) March 2005 (abstracts)
Scand J
Crim Law Criminol
Forbud mot kjøp
av sex – Erfaringer fra Sverige
og Finland. Stortinget 2008
Health
Ida Blom.
Fighting Venereal Diseases: Scandinavian Legislation c.1800
to c.1950. Med Hist 2006
Nordic Gender Institute (NIKK)
Prostitution in the Nordic Countries November 2008
May-Len Skilbrei (left) and Charlotta Holmström
Prostitution legislation: Will they go the same way?
March 19 2009
Mobilising Public Opinion March 24 2009
Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform
Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Johan Karlsson Schaffer
Nordic Council
2004 Council meeting: Prostitution Control
Nordisk institutt for kunnskap om
kjønn (NIKK)
Denmark
History
Pedersen: Prostitution in Denmark
1860-1906. Int Fed Res Women’s Hist 2003
Merete Bøge
Pedersen: Tempting outcasts. On common prostitutes in the
19th century. Bibl Læger
2006;198:38-57[1]
Articles
Armario and Dollner: Prostitution in Denmark.
Humanity in Action 2002 (pdf)
Research
Prostitution
i Danmark. Det Nationale Forskningscenter
for Velfærd 2011 (pdf)
Agencies
(National Board of Social Services)
Udsatte: Prostitution (Vulnerable Populations: Prostitution)
Notat om prostitutionskunder
2009 (pdf)
(Memorandum on clients of prostitution)
SFI: Det Nationale Forskningscenter for
Velfærd
(Danish National Centre for Social Research)
90:8. Bechmann Jensen, T., Koch, I., Kongstad, A. & Dahl, A.: Prostitution
i Danmark - en situationsrapport 1989. 1990.
Socialt
udsatte, hjemløse og prostituerede
(Socially
disadvantaged, homeless and prostitutes)
Organisations
(English)
SIO: Sexarbejdernes Interesse Organisation
Maj Christensen
Media
(Our accusation: Moralism
dictating prostitution policy)
Prostituerede: Kampagne mod købesex
er hetz. Berlingske Tidende Aug 14 2008
(Prostitutes: Campaign on
purchasing sex is a smear)
Talfusk: Færre gadeprostituerede i Danmark. Ekstra Bladet 4 July 2010
Danskerne vil give prostituerede
flere rettigheder.
Altinget.dk June 10 2011
Commentary
The framing of sex workers as victims in Denmark. March 12 2009
Prohibition - The Danish Frame. March 19 2009
Denmark brothels as activation strategies for the
unemployed.
June 29 2010
Danish stance on
prostitution. Dec. 2006
Prostitution of poverty or sexual self-determination? June 2010
Blogs
Eini Carina Grønvold: Et
forbud gavner (A Ban
Benefits). Aug 28 2009
Finland
Organisations
Salli: Sex Professionals of Finland
(Johanna Sirkiä, Anna Kontula)
Legislative Framework
Vagrancy Act 1936[4]
Bill 31 (1996)[6]
Sex Crime Act 1998[7]
Public Order Act 2003[8]
Prostitution Act 2006
Ministry
of Justice
Committee
for Investigating the Consequences of Repeal of the Vagrant Act (1985-6)
Report recommends criminalising the purchase of sex 2003
Government adopts proposal 2005
2006 Finnish Prostitution Law: Criminalising
purchase from trafficked persons only
Passed on June 21, 158:15
Research
Prostituutio Suomessa Prostitution in Finland 2005
(abstract - pdf)
Seksuaalisuus seksityössä
(Sexuality in sex work). Yhteispuntapoliitikka 2007 (pdf)
(Suomeksi, English Summary)
English version: The sex
worker and her pleasure. Current Sociology 2008 (abstract)
Punainen eksodus: Tutkimus seksityöstä Suomessa. 2008 Thesis (pdf)
(The Red Exodus: A study on sex work in
Mattson: Strange bedfellows -
neoliberal and sex trafficking discourses in Finland. ASA 2003
Anne Maria Holli: Towards a new prohibitionism? Prostitution policies in Finland 2004
in: Outshoorn: The Politics of
Prostitution
Helen Self: The Swedish Model 2005 (pdf)
Elina Ihamäki:
Sex trafficking from Russia to Finland. 2008 (pdf)
(with English summary: Freedom from the margins
– marginal freedom. The struggle between the
women’s movement and prostitutes’ advocacy movement regarding the criminalisation of paid sex, 2002–2006. Council for Equality Social Affairs and Health)
Media
Sex
for sale in Oulu. 65 Degrees North 2006
Finns pass anti-prostitution law BBC
June 21 2006
Most sex workers independent. Helsingin
Sanomat Oct 28 2007
Men who buy sex. Helsingen Sanomat Oct 31
Bauvois G: The reality of prostitution in Finland. Helsinki
Times February 2008
Anna Kontula speaks on
behalf of sex workers. Helsinki Times Sept 7 2008
Seksityön tutkija
sallisi osuuskuntabordellit. Taloussanomat Oct 1 2008
TV
Interview with Anna Kontula October 2008 (Suomeksi)
Finland’s prostitution laws strike delicate
balance. Helsinki Times March 17 2010
Commentary
Racism in the Sex Trade in Finland. NIKK 2002
NPPR
Finland's prostitution law and the hope of Nordic unity NPPR December 10 2009
Media
Iceland amends prostitution laws. Iceland Review March 27 2007
Iceland to ban stripping and prostitution. Iceland Review March 18 2009
Iceland bans purchase of sex. Fréttir
April 21 2009
Big Sister Watches Buyers of Prostitution in
Iceland. Iceland Review October 19 2011
Norwegian Government
Criminalising the purchase of sexual activity
December 1 2008
Groups
PION: Prostituertes Interesseorganisasjon
I Norge
Research
Kilden: Informasjonssenter for
kjønnsforskning
Astrid
Renland. Trafficking of children
and minors to Norway. ECPAT 2001 (pdf)
May-Len Skilbrei: Norwegian massage parlours
in the 1990s. Fem Rev 2001 (abstract)
Skilbrei and Polyakova: "My
life is to short I want to live now" (Norsk) (pdf)
Media:
Dagbladet Oct 23 2007 (Norsk)
Prostitution,
Gender and Migration
Papers
Liv Jessen: Prostitution seen as violence against women 2002
(Liv
Jesssen,[9] Pro Sentret,
recipient of 2004 Amnesty human rights prize)
Liv Jessen: Small, big and strong Amnesty
September 23 2004 (Norsk)
Prostitutes from Norway and Sweden thank Amnesty September 27 2004 (Norsk)
Media
Call for
crackdown Aftenposten April 17 2007
Norway set to make buying sex
illegal Guardian April 23 2007
Labour votes to ban purchase of sex Aftenposten
April 24 2007
Nordmenn trenger prostituerte Nettavisen April 24
2007
Prostitutes fume as Norway bids to criminalise sex purchases Sunday Times July 22 2007
Norway introduces bill to ban
purchase of sex. April 18 2008
Fewer prostitutes, but conditions worsen after new law in Norway AFP
February 9 2009
Prostitutes back on Oslo streets. Norwegian
Post 26 October 2009
Sexmarkedet
flyttes over til nett. TV2 Nyhetene April 4 2011
Vil
fjerne sexkjøploven. TV2 Nyhetene April 20
Commentary
Den unorske prostitusjonen: De nigerianske prostituerte solgte sex på
feil måte, derfor grep det norske samfunnet inn. May-Len Skilbrei, Dagbladet Feb 10 2009
(Adapted from Norske seksualiteter)
Sexkjøpsloven og andre
helllige kuer. Amnesty May
12 2011
NPPR
Skilbrei on un-Norwegian prostitution. February 12 2009
Race and prostitution in Norway. February 24 2009
Contra bonos mores and the sex purchase ban in
Norway. April 7 2009
The rise and fall of the Joint Action in
Norway. June 8 2010
Blogs
Laura Agustín: Anti-trafficking news
from Norway. January 9 2009
Books
Liv Jessen (ed.): Det
ideelle offer? Andre tekster om prostitusjon, Oslo: Koloritt Forlag, 2007.
May-Len
Skilbrei. Nigeriansk prostitusjon på norsk: Feil kvinner på feil
sted, in Wencke Mühleisen & Åse Røthing (eds.) Norske seksualiteter, Cappelen, Oslo
2009
Sweden
(see also Europe)
Last updated: October 21, 2011
Dr Michael Goodyear,
For any problems, please contact: mgoodyear@dal.ca