He could be your neighbour,
even your best friend. Or perhaps he is a colleague at work, or someone you
talked to at a party last weekend. He appears to live a normal life – he’s
married, has children, a good job – in other words, he’s a regular guy. But he
also buys sexual services and thereby supports the market of sexual
exploitation, prostitution and trafficking. And under the Swedish law, he is a criminal.
Swedish
law focuses on these men rather than on the young girls and women they exploit.
Why? The thinking behind the law is that it is the demand for sexual services
that maintains prostitution and human trafficking for sexual purposes. The
legal approach to this problem is often referred to as “the Swedish example.”
In
1999, Sweden enacted a law that forbids the purchase of sexual services, a law
that at the time was the first of its kind. As at 2009, both Norway and Iceland
had enacted similar Laws.
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