Camming now illegal

It's now illegal in Sweden to use a webcam site or buy custom content. Illegal for the user that is, so no more cams or custom videos etc. Punishment is up to a year in prison.

It's still legal to buy porn or subscribe to porn sites, providing that the material is pre-recorded and that the content of the material has not been influenced by the buyer.

Why has this become a thing now in Sweden? Anti porn law?

It's not anti porn, as was said above, they can buy prerecorded content, subscribe to sites etc.
https://reason.com/2025/05/28/is-buying-...in-sweden/
Live/custom content is where the law has been amended. It seems it's an extension of existing laws already in place, where those buying are breaking the law, as those selling/making it are considered as being exploited. I understand that thinking.

No it's not anti-porn, it's anti-prostitution. The Swedish parliament has decided that camming is just another form of prostitution, calling it digital prostitution. According to them any payment for any kind of sexual service is essentially prostitution.

Congrats on the Daily Mail-esque thread title. I guess adding the words "in Sweden" was too much to ask.

Could this snowball further with other countries?

(30-05-2025 16:51 )southlondonphil Wrote:  No it's not anti-porn, it's anti-prostitution. The Swedish parliament has decided that camming is just another form of prostitution, calling it digital prostitution. According to them any payment for any kind of sexual service is essentially prostitution.

It's amazing what pretzal-shaped logic moralists can twist themselves into, in order to convince themselves the thing they want banned should be banned. The Scandinavians are supposed to be liberalist. They KNOW banning porn is too far. But the idea that this camming stuff CAN be linked to trafficking and coercion proved too much for the authorities behind this law even so. So they convince themselves this hair CAN be split.

Utter nonsense and so anti-libiterian from those that are supposed to be the ultimate in OPPOSITION to that. Still a ban is easier than actually funding proper enforcement against the proper crimes that CAN sometimes revolve around this industry. The industry is suddenly the problem instead of those commiting criminal acts. Can Scandinavian Diddy's go right on doing what they doing as long as they don't put it online if this is the priority choosen?

Once again the people, lose freedoms in the cause of those with the power taking the easy, supposed moral high-ground, route.

(31-05-2025 16:47 )ShandyHand Wrote:  

(30-05-2025 16:51 )southlondonphil Wrote:  No it's not anti-porn, it's anti-prostitution. The Swedish parliament has decided that camming is just another form of prostitution, calling it digital prostitution. According to them any payment for any kind of sexual service is essentially prostitution.

It's amazing what pretzal-shaped logic moralists can twist themselves into, in order to convince themselves the thing they want banned should be banned. The Scandinavians are supposed to be liberalist. They KNOW banning porn is too far. But the idea that this camming stuff CAN be linked to trafficking and coercion proved too much for the authorities behind this law even so. So they convince themselves this hair CAN be split.

Utter nonsense and so anti-libiterian from those that are supposed to be the ultimate in OPPOSITION to that. Still a ban is easier than actually funding proper enforcement against the proper crimes that CAN sometimes revolve around this industry. The industry is suddenly the problem instead of those commiting criminal acts. Can Scandinavian Diddy's go right on doing what they doing as long as they don't put it online if this is the priority choosen?

Once again the people, lose freedoms in the cause of those with the power taking the easy, supposed moral high-ground, route.

I heartily agree with you

(30-05-2025 16:51 )southlondonphil Wrote:  No it's not anti-porn, it's anti-prostitution. The Swedish parliament has decided that camming is just another form of prostitution, calling it digital prostitution. According to them any payment for any kind of sexual service is essentially prostitution.

Muddled thinking, I accept that prostitution can be exploitative & dangers with safety & health concerns, but camming must surely be the safest form of sex-work, with models having control over what levels they work to & payment, for what some offer it is the customer that is getting exploited at times.
Many camgirls have punters who pay for their time for non-sexual sessions, both parties are being punished in these cases. How does a law maker even know what is taking place in a private cam session.

It's a strange day when a country that was once lauded for being progressive, open-minded etc (call it what you will) suddenly declares that live video chat is akin to a digital knocking shop whilst pre-recorded video is all warm & fluffy.

On a live chat you can at least see & hear the the other person is real, whereas we all know the Onlyfans scams with some fat bloke called Bernard pretending to be an 18 year old pneumatic blonde in order to sell her videos while she's off getting rodgered senseless by some rich Arab in Dubai. You've got to ask yourself who this kind of law should actually be protecting.