ABSTRACT
During the nineteenth century the state regulation of women selling sexual services increased in Denmark. From the middle of the nineteenth century, a woman who sold sex was obliged to register as "a public woman", which included weekly medical tests. Compared to other European states, sex workers' organization or other feminist approaches are weak in comparison to abolitionist-feminist stances in Denmark. A national comprehensive survey on the recent prostitution market was published in a national report in 2011, and also examines that it is difficult to gain precise numbers of sex workers and victims of human trafficking in Denmark. Scholarly knowledge about the Danish prostitution market is sparse, and the numbers of sex workers, commercial sex establishments, and victims of human trafficking in Denmark are highly debated and contested. According to the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE), there is no formal organization of male sex sellers in Denmark.
