Sweden has recently implemented a law that criminalizes the purchase of sexual content online, including personalized services offered on platforms like OnlyFans. This legislation stems from the country's longstanding Nordic Model that penalizes buyers, not sellers, in sex work to protect those exploited or coerced into sex work. While selling sex remains legal, the new law prohibits transactions for specific personalized content. Critics, including sex workers, argue this may drive them out of the country and limit their agency. They express concern over being forced into more precarious situations due to the law's implications.
Since 1999, Swedish laws around sex work criminalise the buyer of sex rather than the seller... The idea behind the law is that sellers of sex should not be punished.
Under the new law, this is considered as equivalent to paying someone for sex offline... it will no longer be legal to pay for specific content.
Some of the most outspoken critics are sex workers themselves, including OnlyFans creator Cara, who told Dagens Nyheter that the new law could force her to leave Sweden.
When I understood that no one was going to vote against this proposal I just went home in a panic, threw myself onto the sofa and cried.
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