Germany Considers the 'nordic Model' to Curb Sex Work
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Germany is considering adopting the 'Nordic model' to curb sex work, sparking debate among commenters about the effectiveness and morality of such laws, with some arguing for legalization and others against normalization.
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We have easy access to porn, raves, onlyfans is essentially a digital version of this, etc and the youth are already sexualized and consumed by their desires -- but when the genitals physically cross that's too much? What a joke.
You want a deterrent, make it legal, have safe buildings and rooms for this service - all parties consent to be recorded and footage deleted in 1 year (in the event of a crime). Safer for the women cause vanilla sex is pointless to record in the age of porn/has no real leverage for the guys who just need to take the edge off and the freaks run a very real risk of capture if they get too aggressive.
Two brief examples that I remember: ① Many prostitutes were also witnesses to related crimes, which were difficult to prosecute because the key witnesses would have to admit to their own prostitution. ② The first employer of an ex-prostitute has to teach the ways of normal employment. Some employers will make that effort, but not many. The organisations that help prostitutes find regular employment stated that a criminal record made the search much more difficult.
On child prostitution in Germany—https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raise-alarm-over-spike-...
On sex trafficking in Germany—https://www.dw.com/en/germany-mulls-ban-on-buying-sex-to-fig...
Further on sex trafficking—https://mission-freedom.de/en/forced-prostitution/facts-and-...
On increase in STDs— >…significantly more STI diagnoses
https://di.aerzteblatt.de/int/archive/article/224168/Men-who...
On issues with the recent report on PPA—https://catwinternational.org/2025/08/catws-statement-on-the...
Why do you think they’re trying to do the Nordic model now? Hint: it’s not because legalizing sex work proved to be a great solution for their society.
Interesting to note, Germany ranks lower than the US on the happiness index.
Not just write a single sentence that implies that some implications exist.
What stands out to me the most is that the Nordic model proves that reducing sex work improves the economic wellbeing of people, regardless of the legalization of sex work.
- Everything you say here about sex work applies to non-sex work.
- The name for "class of workers that doesn't have any tangible talent or capability beyond being used by someone else" is "slave." It's incorrect while this is true: people can voluntarily leave jobs. I don't think anyone is saying sex workers have to take jobs they don't want or be stuck in sex work for the rest of their lives.
Do you think modern workers are slaves? If so, solutions should address all workers and not just sex workers.
Also equating prostitution to kindney selling is incorrect. Prostitutes generally keep all their body parts after providing services.
If sex work is your hobby, then please go ahead and be free, do whatever you want. If sex work is suggested as means to earn a living, then society can do better. The human brain is not so trivial that its labor should be reduced to something a cow, a goat, or even a monkey can do. I want human flourishing, not human debasement.
If maufacturing is your hobby, then please go ahead and be free, do whatever you want. If 8 to 12 hours of repetitive motions is suggested as means to earn a living, then society can do better. The human brain is not so trivial that its labor should be reduced to something a machine or even a robot can do. I want human flourishing, not human debasement.
Let’s talk about getting pregnant now. First, children are not accessories or extension of yourself. They deserve a safe and healthy environment to grow, ideally with two parents to add a counterbalance when one is not someone you can like or trust. Even if sex work is legalized and normalized, you run the risk of creating an unsafe environment for your child if your work follows you home, and begins to stalk and harass you. Too many people have gotten killed, mostly women, because they jilted someone. That’s not even bringing up the fact that someone might want to rear the child with you, and what if that’s not what you want because you’re already in a relationship.
So you get abortions. The human body can take only so much physical trauma from invasive surgical interventions before your immune system starts degrading. Abortions are not an endless solution to getting pregnant, and contraceptions are not 100% child-proof, including vasectomies. Again, lots more to say here but I encourage reading instead. One is more likely to take to an if they find it themselves rather than someone telling them.
I’ll say one final thing about the body though. The holes used for sex, minus the mouth, degrade each time they’re used. If someone is a sex working, they’ll have to factor in the depreciation of that physical material into the cost of their services. That’s not currently done because sex working is relatively rare, and there’s fast turnaround in workers because natural aging is also a factor. Basically, if there’s lots of competition your holes are not that valuable, and they’ll degrade each time they’re used.
Factory work doesn’t give you communicable diseases, or run the risk of pregnancy.
- Without reading anything but this you’d be certain this was garbage said/written by “Christian-something” party / group /…
- Also 99.97% of all clients are Christians as well :)