Ash Regan MSP joins us to discuss her Unbuyable Bill, alongside Venessa, a survivor of the Scottish sex industry.
The bill seeks to lessen the harms from prostitution in Scotland through a holistic approach known as the Nordic Model.Ash will be joined by Venessa, a survivor of the Scottish sex industry and Heli St Luce. The seminar will be introduced and chaired by Emily Husain.
Following a short presentation by each speaker, our panel will answer your questions, which you can submit during the seminar, or in advance by email.
The Unbuyable bill, officially the Prostitution, Offences and Support (Scotland) Bill, reflects the Nordic Model approach to prostitution, first introduced in Sweden in 1999. Here selling of sex by individual women is decriminalised, but the buying of sexual services becomes a criminal offence. Crucially the Unbuyable bill also provides extensive support services for those wishing to exit prostitution and will clear any previous convictions a woman may have for soliciting.
Unfortunately there are many myths around the Nordic model, often circulated by organisations purporting to act in the best interests of sex workers. Some of these take the form of bad faith arguments, others rely on falsifiable data while others still infantilise men or romanticise what is in reality a dangerous and unromantic activity.
Whatever your views on the Unbuyable bill, please join us for what will be an interesting and informative webinar.
The webinar is free, but you need to register in advance.
Webinar Details This webinar will be hosted in Zoom and is expected to last about 90 minutes. We will email registered attendees shortly before the event with details of how to join. If you can’t see the email, please check your spam folders.
Questions There will be an option to submit questions during the event, but you are welcome to email in advance any questions you would like our panellists to consider. Please put ‘Webinar Question’ in the subject line and email it to info@nordicmodelnow.org. Time constraints mean, however, that we will be limited in how many questions we can address.
This is a mixed event This event is open to everyone. The event will include discussion of some difficult issues, including male violence to women and children. We ask everyone, but particularly men, to be mindful of this and how members of the audience may find this triggering because it resonates with their own experiences of male violence. We ask everyone to be open and respectful.
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