[x0x0]

You can find the people forced into prostitution sympathetic and deserving of support to find a different occupation, yet simultaneously support legalization as a harm reduction measure. Prostitution, much like drugs that get you high, isn't going away. As Bill Hicks said, we had a war on drugs, and the people on drugs won. The minimal net harm position appears to be legalization, std testing, and severe penalties for abusing or coercing prostitutes.

[_bfhp]

There is a thing called the Nordic Model, which is a third option.

[makomk]

The Swedish/Nordic Model just means that women in the industry aren't directly criminalised for having sex for money (so long as they have the legal right to work in the country). It still makes it illegal for women to take safety measures like hiring a bouncer or driver to protect them from violent clients, or working together with another woman for the same reason. It also makes it a criminal offence to knowingly rent a flat to a prostitute. It's almost exactly the opposite of harm reduction - it makes it legal to sell sex, but only in ways that are high risk. Hell, I've seen activists in the UK who see this as a positive, because the added danger will encourage women to leave the industry.

[_bfhp]

You leave out the Nordic model's compontent of social programs that give women all the means to exit the industry. Why would one leave this out...?