ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the dynamic frame analysis that is a constructivist framework developed to allow exploration of this interaction between actors and ideas and the implications of different problem constructions. It examines how the construction of meaning is essential in order to understand how the ban of purchase of sexual services was adopted and to understand the subsequent debate on the law. The chapter suggests that the idea of prostitution as violence against women was not, at least initially, the predominant problem framing in the policy process, nor in the claims for client criminalization. It analyses the problem framings of prostitution, traces the origin of the Swedish model through periods of the policy debate, identifies critical junctures that led to the introduction of the legislation, and explores how the gender inequality has been discussed in different framings of prostitution.
