SWEDEN WOMENS ISSUES
There are 2,500 prostituted women in massage parlors, escort agencies, private apartments and on the streets in Sweden.
An estimated 650 women are street-prostitutes.
(Belinda Goldsmith, "Swedish sex buyers feel law’s weak slap," Reuters, 14 June 1998)
An estimated 125,000 men purchase sexual services each year in Sweden.
(Government spokesman, Belinda Goldsmith, "Swedish sex buyers feel law’s weak slap," Reuters, 14 June 1998)
Beginning in 1999 purchasing sex will be a criminal offense in Sweden.
(Belinda Goldsmith, "Swedish sex buyers feel law’s weak slap," Reuters, 14 June 1998)........
In May 1998 Sweden moved to make the possession of child pornography illegal.
The legislation is to take effect from January 1, 1999.
("Sweden takes first step to criminalise child porn," Reuters, 13 May 1998)
Swedish police seized 300 hours of film showing Western men with Sri Lankan children in 1995.
("Sri Lankan children for sale on the Internet," (Julian West, New Delhi, London Telegraph, 26 Oct 1997)
Photographs of naked teenage boys were exhibited in Sweden’s Stockholm Historical Museum.
Despite complaints that the photographs were tantamount to child pornography, the board of the Cultural Capital organizing committee decided that the exhibition would continue.
The exhibit was later destroyed by a gang of youths.
("Swedish youths destroy photo show of naked boys," Reuters, 30 June 1998)
In December 1997, plans were announced to outlaw by January 1, 1999 the possession, procurement, import, or export of child pornography using whatever means available, including the Internet.
It will specifically outlaw computer-generated pornography.
("Sweden - Anti Child Porn Legislation Plans," Newsbytes, 23 December 1997)
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