I've created a number of pages recently on this blog. They can be seen on the right of this post. The reason why I have done this is because there are issues that I want to deal with in detail. They are reference for people who need to know facts about these issues. I want to keep posts more for my own experiences although since the lockdown I haven't had many of those.
I have been finding out about prostitution in developing nations (the Global South). This has been reflected in recent posts, 'behind the veil of vice', 'sex in the cities' and 'prostitution in developing nations'. I have put the important information in a slightly more coherent form in the page 'trafficking'.
Most of the information I have copy-and-pasted from various sources so sometimes there might be inconsistencies. I have referenced some of this but if you wish to find the source then copying sentences and Googling them will usually let you see where they have come from. I have divided the pages into different sections using horizontal rules. They will be updated when I get new information.
'trafficking' shows how this issue has been used by evangelicals and especially George W Bush to try to stop sin. What they are doing to poor countries needs to be exposed.
'brothel-keeping' is about how a simple change in the law can make life better for many sex workers.
'public opinion' is about how the Swedish government has manipulated the opinion of people in a sinister way.
'the reality' is about the true nature of most prostitution in both affluent and poor countries.
'Dworkin' is about how one or two people managed to change public opinion for the worse.
'MacKinnon' is about how an American legal expert influenced the law in Sweden.
'Ireland' is about how the Nordic model is working out in Ireland, both North and South.
'Rachel Moran' is about the so-called survivor whose book says something different from what the prohibitionists believe.
'more about the Nordic model in Sweden' is about how the Nordic model seemed to start working after about ten years and why. The police were given more resources then but also there was the financial crisis. We now know there was a drop in the amount of prostitution in Denmark too about the time of the financial crisis. So the drop can't be explained by the policy of arresting punters, because that didn't happen in Denmark.
