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Minister wants to reveal suspected sex clients

Politics | 2010-03-19 | 3 comments

Minister for Justice Beatrice Ask proposes that people who are suspected of buying sexual services shall receive a letter to their home in order to make them ashamed in front of their family members.

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Beatrice Ask. Photo: Pawel Flato

At a seminar about prostitution yesterday Ask proposed that revealing suspected sex buyers would make them ashamed in front of their families and neighbors, like putting suspected criminals on the city’s main square in the old days.

- There should perhaps be distinct colours on the envelop that is sent to the addresses of suspected buyers of sexual services she said at the seminar on Thursday according to Svenska Dagbladet.

- We have to show who these people are and let people in their surroundings know she says to Aftonbladet.

Fact: To buy sexual services is forbidden in Sweden since 1999. It can lead to financial penalties or maximum six months in prison. Selling sexual services is not forbidden.

Tommie Ullman

tommie.ullman@stockholmnews.com

Readers' comments

2010-05-30 00:00 B. Bumble wrote:

Well, I don´t know about prosecuting the prostitutes but it´s bizarre that in a nation where men are so predatory and unpleasant and women generally have the sexual morals of a shagged-out alley cat (anyone, anytime, anywhere) they all get so pathetically pompous about someone actually paying for what most Swedish women give free to anyone without a moment´s thought.

2010-05-27 22:26 I. Legal wrote:

It´s typical of neo-fascist Sweden to come up with a loopy and essentially unjust scheme such as this. What, in the name of all that´s legal, happened to innocent until proven guilty? BTW: why not also prosecute the slags that sell themselves on the streets of that god-forbidden nation?

2010-03-21 20:36 idiocracy wrote:

how can sweden let such idiots stay in charge. every time she opens her mouth, her i.q. seems to drop. pushing so hard for the fra law, then ipred. i thought she was just in somebody´s pocket, but now i think that she´s just to bloody stupid to make rational decisions. please, sweden, kicked her the fuck out of office before she ruins somebody´s life.