The Swedish government wants to make paying for sexual services online a criminal offense. The law could have global implications for online services and put creators at risk, warns Yigit Aydin. He fights for the rights of sex workers on behalf of the association ESWA.
IDK where this fixation in regulating other people’s sexual life comes from, I assume it’s from the Middle-east religions?
When asked the question “who is the victim in this supposed crime?” they will tell you it’s the exploited women (is there male prostitution? IDK), but those are supposed victims (even if 99.99% of prostitutes were forced into it, you’d still have to prove exploitation in each specific case - that’s how justice works in every other matter except this one). They won’t be able to explain (if not with, often made-up, statistical arguments) why they don’t treat women (and men) that are exploited in different businesses the same way (think, migrants forced to work in slavelike conditions in agriculture).
The sad truth is, those moralists are just more interested in dictating other people’s sexual behaviour than they are interested in human rights.
It’s worth mentioning that, besides the various semi-bans on prostitution (which do irritate me, but whom - in all honesty - I can live with), this unhealthy sexual fixation of our societies is what gifts us the marginalization (when it’s not persecution) of LGBT people.
Your assumption is both false and seems racist. How the heck do you get the idea that Swedish sexual morals would be defined by people thousands of kilometres away?
Sweden has a long lasting history of being more strict around alocohol, drugs and prostitution. Sexual morals in Europe are predominantly shaped by the dominant christian church, be it catholic or protestant. Both the catholic and protestants are their own makings of Europe and during the crusades European Christians often slaughtered orthodox Christian.
Muslim countries have been more progressive on issues such as abortions and reproductive healthcare and partly seen a regression since the christian colonizers. Prostitution has always been illegal under Muslim law, but it also has been illegal in Christian Europe and legality is more the exception than the rule even today. Again the idea that this would somehow be the “fault” of “Middle-east religions” is absurd. This is some 1500 years “home made” European stances.
I think that’s a reference to the 3 Abrahamic religions all of which originated in the Middle East - and of those Christianity most certainly is shaping the morals of Sweden (or at the least certainly has in the past)
(Judaism, Christianity and Islam being the “big 3 abrahamic” - Zoroastrianism & Bahai aren’t really in the same category worldwide and aren’t Abrahamic as far as I am aware)