 This legal and social approach to prostitution, which has become known as the "Swedish Model" or more recently the "Nordic Model", needs to be understood—at least partly—in the context of radical feminism (a philosophy which focuses on the theory of the patriarchal roots of inequality between men and women), which is very prominent in Sweden.Today, the law is largely uncontroversial across the whole political spectrum.The view of prostitution as a legacy of a societal order that subordinates women to men being officially accepted.