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I Guess Sweden Is A Little More Liberal With Their Justice System

by MoneyMagnetMagnate
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Police in Stockholm arrest sex-buyer who turns out to be the chief prosecutor they report such crimes to.
  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    How do you spell "awkward" in Swedish?
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    So much for the phrase "only in America".
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    I must say I was shocked when I read this news. Prostitution is illegal in Sweden?!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

      Prostitution is illegal in Sweden?!
      Surely not? (It would be paradoxical for people to be committing an offense under a law of that type which protects them?).

      I think it must be being a prostitute's customer that's illegal, rather than being a prostitute?
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      • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Surely not? (It would be paradoxical for people to be committing an offense under a law of that type which protects them?).

        I think it must be being a prostitute's customer that's illegal, rather than being a prostitute?
        You're right:

        Prostitution in Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

        "The laws on prostitution in Sweden make it illegal to buy sexual services, but not to sell them. Pimping, procuring and operating a brothel are also illegal"

        Personally, I think brothels should be legal (for prostitutes' safety), street-walking illegal, and pimping, in particular, should be illegal and harshly punished.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

          Personally, I think brothels should be legal (for prostitutes' safety), street-walking illegal, and pimping, in particular, should be illegal
          I think I agree with all of this (subject to "pimping" possibly being difficult to define accurately, under some circumstances? Might not necessarily be trivially easy to distinguish it from a brothel's "service-charge" or whatever?). I must say, I was surprised to read this, anyway: I'd have guessed wrongly that being a prostitute's customer wouldn't have been illegal, either, in Sweden. :confused:

          I think neither is illegal in the UK, but streetwalking, soliciting in public and "living on immoral earnings" (which means "pimping", I think) are.
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