Thus, in effect, police have the authority to raid and/or shut down and prosecute anyone organizing or employed by a brothel, no matter how small the profit or fair the wages. And over the last years, there’s an increase in exactly that happening, probably to appease political pressure (from very powerful left-wing politicians wanting to implement “the Swedish model” …)
And of course, sex workers have no rights, even though they can be prosecuted if the do not pay taxes of their income (whatever amount the state believe it to be) .

There’s a lot of info – albeit in Danish only – about the Danish situation, research, debate, plus theme pages with facts about how it’s going in criminalized Sweden and Norway, at the web page for the sexual political network I co-represent; http://www.seksualpolitik.dk
and at the Danish sex worker’s interest group; http://www.s-i-o.dk

Plus it is incredibly reassuring and exciting to see where our organizing could *go*: our own worker-run busineses? Rallies that turn out hundreds of workers? A place at the table in federal discussions about policy? Yes!