In the final months of 2023, the Swedish government finally put sexual exploitation on the agenda and presented three important inquiries. These inquiries focus on stronger legal protections for young people, exit programs, and the vulnerabilities within pornography. The issues and inquiries are crucial for Sweden’s efforts to combat prostitution and some of the proposed… Read more »
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Visa and Mastercard takes a stand against sexual exploitation
Debit-card companies can make it more difficult for the sex trade or facilitate it. Visa and Mastercard have taken a stand against the “digital brothels”, most visibly for the porn website Pornhub, a website were rape on children, revenge porn and rough abuse on women has been normalized. Now, more payment services and social media… Read more »
”All guys consume pornography” – about ascribing pornography as a male trait and the consequences thereof
We must talk about pornography. We must talk about the normalization of how we talk about pornography, that it’s something “all guys do” and something you just have to accept. We must talk about, as a girlfriend, being naive when expressing that one’s boyfriend doesn’t consume pornography. The average age of beginning to look at… Read more »
New laws regarding sexual exploitation of children
On May 1st, new laws came into force. The time for rape and genital mutilation against children was abolished and the minimum penalty for serious child pornography crimes increased. The amendments to the law mean that it is possible to report a rape or a female genital mutilation to a child, regardless of when the… Read more »
Porn – a phenomenon that awakes reactions and needs to be discussed
Today’s normalization of porn where we are exposed by our own or other’s consumption is striking. What alternative is there but mainstream porn? RealStars emphazises the most important part of the scool. Laure Olivia is in charge of young people’s engagement in the chairity organisation FiLiA, that work’s for women’s rights. She recently wrote an… Read more »