Pornography and sex laws in Scandinavian countries.

To make things more clear I will post links regards some issues regarding the legality or illegality of sex! Porn why it’s legal to produce and by and legal to sell sex but not to buy!

First things first we will deal with the prostitution bit.

Prostitution is the act of performing sexual activity in exchange for money or goods. The legal status of prostitution varies greatly between different jurisdictions, from being punishable by death to being completely legal.

In Sweden it is legal to sell sex but not to buy sex. Pimping is also illegal. Prostitutes are generally viewed by the government as oppressed, while their clients are viewed as oppressors.[citation needed] Norway has the same laws as Sweden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Europe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Europe#Prostitution_in_Norway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Europe#Prostitution_in_Finland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Europe#Prostitution_in_Denmark

Lets explore the pornographic side of legality or illegality of porn in Sweden. For me the Swedish person porn is legal to wiew without any censorship except childpornography. Regards to having “tidelag” having sex with an animal was previously banned/illegal but not now.

Producing porn no matter if it’s a picture or a video loop on INTERNET or DVD is legal but a Grey area.  Due to the fact that Sweden have criminalize the act of buying sex this can be a problem especially  if you take count of trafficing situation worldwide. The producer, film maker, male or female counterpart in the filmed sex act. Can be accused of a criminal act off course that has not happened yet wich is the reason for Grey area.

let’s read what Wikipedia say’s and we can make an opinion regards porn and producing, or acting in porn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pornography_laws_by_country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pornography_laws_by_country#Sweden

Sweden

No age limits at all. Some shops follow a voluntary 18 year limit. Illegal for persons below 18 to act in films or pose for photography made in Sweden. Video and stills are illegal if actor is below 18 even if legal in originating country. Material that may involve animals is de facto legal; however, it is subject to animal-welfare laws. BDSM is classified as “illegal depiction of violence,” but the law is rarely used to ban any such material.

other Scandinavian countries.

Norway

Hardcore material was for a long time illegal de jure, but legal in practice, that is, illegal to produce, distribute and sell, but legal to possess. One could e.g. acquire it abroad, on the internet, or via satellite TV. There were also some illegal porn shops, especially in the larger cities. To satisfy legal requirements, editors of erotic magazines, domestic TV channels and cable TV obscured sexual organs in activity using black rectangles etc. After the Supreme Court on 7 December 2005 unanimously acquitted a former magazine editor for publishing unobscured hardcore pornography in 2002, however, it is understood that printed hardcore pornography is no longer illegal, and pornographic magazines and movies were introduced in general stores from 2006. Public TV as well as cable TV seems to stay with the old rules, and is not yet clear if the Supreme Court decision will affect TV. (NB: The depiction of illegal sexual activities, such as those involving children, animals, necrophilia, rape, violence or the use of force, remains illegal.) [8][9][10]

Denmark

Ban on pornographic literature was lifted in 1967. In 1969 Denmark was the first country in the world to legalize pornography.

Child pornography is illegal.[2] It is illegal to distribute image or video pornography with persons under the age of 18. Though the age of consent is lower at 15. It is, however, not illegal to possess images or videos of people above 15 if the person filmed or photographed has given consent.

People in Denmark have free access to pornography; it is sold in most convenience stores, and is available for purchase or rental in practically every video store, including Blockbuster. There are a few regulations, such as being placed out of the eyesight of children. Pornography may not be sold to persons under the age of 15. The TV-channel Kanal København broadcasts hardcore pornography free and uncoded at night.

There are no specific restrictions against animal pornography, this is regulated by animal cruelty laws. If no harm or pain has been inflicted on the animal, or otherwise caused it harm, no legal action can be taken. This lack of legislation has allegedly made Denmark a center for the production of animal pornography, however this was dismissed as a myth by Det Dyreetiske Råd (a legal council), which in November 2006 published an extensive report on the topic of animal sex.

Finland

Child, violent and bestiality pornography is banned[3]. It is allowed to sell pornography in every store, but magazines to buyers of 15 years or older and hardcore to buyers of 18 years or older.

Before 1 January 1999, all indecent publishing, import and export were banned

If any reader want’s challange the information or come up with ideas regards loopholes around these laws. Please feel free to share them.

or just google

pornography+sweden

heres one result, text copied from http://stason.org/TULARC/travel/nordic-scandinavia/2-7-3-Pornography.html

2.7.3 Pornography

[ Lennart Regebro writes: ]
Norway and Iceland don’t allow pornography, but through the years the
definition of what is pornography has got more liberal.

Sweden has one of the world’s best protections for Freedom of Speech,
which made it hard to outlaw pornography. Thus, Sweden got its
reputation of being the land of free sex, because in Sweden you could
actually make porn magazines.

Some time during the sixties, Denmark removed its laws prohibiting
pornography, and became a mecca for Nordic porn. It still is in many
senses. For example, the view on “unusual” sex seems much more relaxed
in Denmark. Sado-Masochism seems pretty accepted, for example,while it
in Sweden seems to be taboo. There is even a law against distrubuting
“violence-sex”, something that seems to be aimed against
sado-masochistic pornography.

Sweden (just like Denmark) doesn’t allow distribution of
child-pornography. Although you legally can own it, the police can
take it, if it is evidence for child-misuse. Owning it is not an
offense, although the law in Sweden is proposed to change on that
point. [ someone else: ]
Finland has its own major contribution to the porn industry in the
famous (and newly deceased) artist Touko Laaksonen (alias: Tom of
Finland), who from the 1940s and forward published a lot of often
overt erotic drawings of Nordic males as forest workers, bikers,
firemen and policemen with pretty faces, huge dicks, and a shameless
amount of appetite for each other.

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