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• You'll notice the heavy emphasis on "foreign" prostitutes in this discussion. This points to the dirtiest of all the dirty secrets behind the European anti-sex-work hysteria. Much of it is driven by racism and xenophobia. The self-proclaimed "progressives" who support the so-called Nordic Model don't like to address the rather obvious fact that they're in flagrante delicto in bed with various Tory parties, right-wing religious fanatics and, worst of all, ultra-nationalist parties on much of the continent that see prostitution as a lure for non-white immigrants to make a few bucks on the sacred terrain of "white Europe."

  Racism fuels much of this controversy and groups that are supposed to be very much opposed to such racism would rather sweep this fact under the rug than deal with the truth of what kind of supporters their movement actually attracts.