SWOP Behind Bars Advocacy from the Margins14 Aug

Jeffrey Epstein Is Not Your Nordic Model Success Story

Jeffrey Epstein has become shorthand for sex trafficking—and, predictably, ammunition for advocates who argue that criminalizing the purchase of sex is the answer to exploitation.

But Epstein wasn’t buying consensual adult sex work. He was accused of exploiting children, conduct that was already profoundly illegal. Police had laws. Prosecutors had evidence. Victims spoke. The system had enormous power—and still failed to stop him.

In this episode of The Pink Patriarchy Files, SWOP Behind Bars asks what the Epstein case actually tells us about trafficking, institutional power, and the Nordic Model. We examine what happens when feminism collapses consensual sex work, trafficking, and sexual violence into one category—and why more criminalization isn't necessarily the same thing as more protection.

Timed for the Florida NOW State Conference and its theme, “Feminists Fight Fascism,” we leave feminists with a harder question: Can we really challenge patriarchal state power while demanding more police, surveillance, and criminalization of the women we claim to protect?

Protect children. Prosecute traffickers and predators. Believe survivors. Listen to sex workers.

The patriarchy has spent centuries telling women that someone else knows what is best for them.

Feminism should know better.

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