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.
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.
Does this apply to people who are voluntarily or by force engaged in sex work too? This seems more like academic leftists gatekeeping.
Who are at a much lower risk of human trafficking, have access to labor unions and workplace protections…
While not perfect, i buy fair trade coffee, which means at least some level of oversight. And picking coffee under exploitative circumstances is terrible, but a different level than being raped for the entertainment of millions of people, where the recordings remain even decades after, if the exploitation can be stopped.
Which is much harder in the digital space and cannot be enforced realistically by Sweden. Even if they would create a certification process and do regular workspace inspections, these could only be enforced inside Sweden. And even that is limited by the trivial ease of using VPNs to claim a different location. So the only option is to prohibit that market.
Earlier you criticized that i provided a source discussion the situation multiple years ago. Now you provide a source that is from the same time and does not address nor distinguish between analog and digital.
There is a fundamental difference between digital and analog. So the criticism needs to distinguish between these two. You gave the example of street workers yourself.
If you criticise the Swedish ban on buying digital sex work, how do you envision to protect digital sex work from human trafficking, provide access to social work and the like? What is the better alternative?
And Swedish sex workers don’t. I rest my case.
It explains, in detail, how the Swedish model hurts sex workers. The Swedish model didn’t change so it’s still up to date.
It also goes into detail, and that is something you should really have a look at, how SWERFs systematically deny and undermine the agency of sex workers. For SWERFs it is not possible to choose, out of your own free will, to be a sex worker, so all are victims so all must be ignored if they’re saying that sex work should be legal and regulated so they can have a safe working environment.
I wasn’t talking about digital at all but reacted to the claim that Germany wouldn’t give a fuck about human trafficking.
So… you’re saying that Sweden should completely outlaw porn? At least the procurement of it? Because that’d be the equivalent of what they’re doing in the analog space. Then the only people left producing porn would be criminal organisations and I don’t think they care much about being kind to the workers.
Prohibition never works when there’s demand. It just doesn’t, never has, never will, not with alcohol, not with cannabis, not with porn, not with prostitution. Regulation does work.
And just for the record Sweden is just as prudish when it comes to alcohol and cannabis. All they know is abolitionism, and bringing up anything else is politically impossible.