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Sweden bans buying OnlyFans content (www.euractiv.com)

submitted 1 year ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.org

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Sweden's parliament has passed a law banning the purchase of sexual performances for viewing online, including those on platforms like OnlyFans, marking a major update to the country’s sex purchase legislation.

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[–] Distractor@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I agree from a bodily autonomy perspective that everyone should have the right to do what they wish with their bodies. If the sex industry was primarily individuals or small scale brothels, with everything voluntary, then legalising prostitution would make sense. Unfortunately, that's not the case.

The sex industry is huge, with large crime syndicates involved, so legalising prostitution in the Netherlands resulted in higher sex trafficking. Once prostitution was normalised, the demand for services increased but the supply didn't. Human traffickers bring in women to meet the demand and the Netherlands government haven't been able to stop it.

There are a lot of online sources confirming this, including this recent (long) report: Failed Promises: The history of legal prostitution and sex trafficking in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago

Agree.

I don't mean legalizing is the solution to everything. Banning it in Sweden had the same issue, you solve the most visible problem (ex prostitutes on the streets), but some of the prostitution goes underground.

Legalize prostitution sounds like when you legalize the weed. The illegal market doesn't disappear, and since you create a hub, probably it will also grow up.

Problem is, with the prostitution is not really fine, since we are basically talking about a sort of slavery

This signs for me a plus for the Swedish way which point at the future, pushing the scam into the population for that stuff (and fucking even more the incels fucking world).

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