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In reply to the discussion: Swedish PM wants tougher sentences for those who buy sex from prostitutes [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)13. The proposal UNDER DISCUSSION HERE
is to have mandatory penalties for (1) those who pay to rape children and (2) those who pay to rape trafficking victims.
Fredrik Reinfeldt said he wants a mandatory prison sentence for buying sex from minors, and tougher sentences for those knowingly buying sex from trafficking victims.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentPrint/2/0/89293/World/0/Sweden-PM-wants-to-see-prostitutes-clients-in-pris.aspx
His Moderate Party, he said, would campaign to incarcerate clients who knew the prostitute they used was a minor or a victim of human trafficking.
This being the year 2013, with Reinfeldt, not Borgstrom, being prime minister.
Even that modest reform is apparently a bridge too far for you, given your response, though you have not provided an intelligible rationale for opposing the common sense notion that those who pay to rape trafficking victims and children should be put in jail.
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Swedish PM wants tougher sentences for those who buy sex from prostitutes [View all]
Judi Lynn
Dec 2013
OP
Buying sex from minors and trafficking victims is rape, and opposing rape is not prudishness.
geek tragedy
Dec 2013
#2
Boo hoo that men don't have the freedom to buy the opportunity to rape a kid or trafficking victim.
geek tragedy
Dec 2013
#4
Four legal options have been presented three in the OP. Let me break it down for you.
Kurska
Dec 2013
#16
How on earth is throwing people in jail for consensual sex anything but sexual fascism?
Kurska
Dec 2013
#20
It won't eliminate the entire black market, nothing in history can eliminate the entire black market
Kurska
Dec 2013
#35
Maybe so .. but the 'honest' thing to do is help the other person understand their mistake
brett_jv
Dec 2013
#17
he is a jerk for a stronger sentence raping a child and raping a sex slave? wow. progressive much?
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#27
I don't think selling sex should carry any criminal penalties. Especially considering how many
nomorenomore08
Dec 2013
#42
"Mandatory prison sentence for buying sex from minors." That I have no problem with.
nomorenomore08
Dec 2013
#41