As the only country in the world, Sweden in 1998 made it illegal to pay for sex but not to offer it for sale. For my occasional Saturday series of translations from the Scandinavian press, I have rendered an op-ed by a Swedish gay prostitute pleading for decriminalization. His view is that people should be free do what they like with their bodies as long as noone else is harmed. He also supports the findings of an official Norwegian study of the Swedish experiment: Criminalizing johns harms the most vulnerable sex workers and makes it harder to prosecute traffickers and pimps.
I have snipped two segments addressing an ongoing scandal where a Supreme Court justice has lost his seat after buying sex from a man. Their omission does not change the overall argument.
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