Since 1999, prostitution in Sweden is considered a crime and a violence against women. The Swedish Parliament was then composed of nearly 50% women.
What about male prostitutes?
In five years the number of women sex workers in Sweden has dramatically decreased. According to the Women’s Justice Center, the number of women in street prostitution has been reduced by two-thirds, whereas the number of johns has been reduced by 80%. “Gone too”, the Justice Center successfully claims, “are the renowned Swedish brothels and massage parlours which proliferated during the last three decades of the twentieth century when prostitution in Sweden was legal”. The list seems to be all ticked off: “The number of foreign women being trafficked in Sweden for sex is nil”.
Is everything really so rosy?
