The Nordic model is a legal approach to prostitution that varies across the Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland: Also known as the Swedish model, the Nordic model is an approach that situates prostitution on a continuum of male violence against women. It is an approach that criminalizes the purchase of sex and pimping but decriminalizes prostituted individuals. This is known as “asymmetric criminalization”. Since 1999, it has been illegal to buy sex in Sweden, and the penalty is a fine or up to six months in prison.
Texas has embraced a similar Law to the Nordic Law (I wrote to the Senator and Governor – well done Texas) and that the State of Arizona is the leader, when it comes to policing prostitution of arresting the “Johns” and the “Pimps” and not the prostitutes. (According to statistics 86% of woman in prostitution are owned / trafficked – shocking!) According to Wikipedia the State of Maine adopted Nordic Law on Prostitution in 2023. It would be amazing if these Laws could be duplicated throughout America (and the rest of the world) to protect woman and children from being trafficked.