I have found two authors new to me who oppose the Nordic Model. One of them is Hilary Kinnell and the other is Ine Vanwesenbeeck. I am reading Hilary's book at the moment, Violence and Sex Work in Britain. She understands the Radical Feminist viewpoint better than anyone else. I am quoting below from the beginning of Chapter 2.
"The core of the current radical feminist position is the assertion that sex work is 'in and of itself violence against women', that no woman ever freely consents to sex and that all clients are motivated by the desire to dominate, humiliate and hurt. This is the contemporary orthodoxy; it is shockingly heretical to suggest any other typology for women who sell sex or for men who buy; to do so leaves one open to very serious insinuations, not merely that one is terminally naive, culpably ignorant or colluding with abuse, but quite probably part of an international conspiracy to promote prostitution and in the pay of international traffickers. Despite such unnerving accusations, because my subject is violence in the sex industry, I cannot wholly ignore the 'sex-work-is-violence' line, so I will explain why it is a meaningless shibboleth which diverts attention from violence as sex workers themselves define it and from the structural conditions that allow it."
She goes on to write about the Radical Feminist idea of "commodification" of women's bodies.
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