ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the abolitionist discourses justifying the sex purchase law have come to inform the views of service providers in Sweden, in particular the prostitution units, state-sponsored organisations intended to reduce levels of sex work through the provision of services and social work. The chapter focuses on harm reduction is a particular area of being a contentious issue for the prostitution units, as well as Swedish service providers and policy makers more generally. The abolitionist radical feminist discourse and writing that has informed this opposition to harm reduction sees harm reduction initiatives as fallacious and actually counterproductive. It is evident that a comprehensive 'Swedish model' on sex work is convoluted both discursively, and in terms of policy, by a divergent 'Malmo model', with its increased focus on harm reduction and less totalising and reductive analysis and discourse from service providers and pertinent actors.
