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A new law in Sweden makes it illegal to buy custom adult content

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84 points diggan | 4 comments | 05 Jul 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.4s | source
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standardUser ◴[05 Jul 25 20:25 UTC] No.44475273[source]▶
The obvious solution is to legalize sex work - an industry the state is incapable of suppressing and the market is insistent on providing. In a high-income, high-trust society like Sweden they have significant advantages in perusing an approach that is perhaps more risky but also fundamentally less misaligned with the human condition.
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1. akomtu ◴[05 Jul 25 21:02 UTC] No.44475518[source]▶
For some of us sex is like food: we know what it is, when to use it and when to stop. However for many others sex is like drugs: it overrides their self-control system and they become addicts. How do you make a law in this situation?
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2. 3eb7988a1663 ◴[05 Jul 25 21:15 UTC] No.44475610[source]▶
That is true of all vices, addiction of any form has societal costs. Gambling, smoking, alcohol, fatty food, etc. Sex work is just the one with the weakest political lobby, so it is easier to regulate.
3. standardUser ◴[05 Jul 25 21:15 UTC] No.44475611[source]▶
Laws don't solve those problems, as has been proven over the course of a hundred years in a hundred different nations. Only the most brutally repressive regimes can actually eradicate the types of sex and drugs they don't like. None of us want to live in that kind of society. So if eradication is impossible, and suppression has proven expensive, ineffective, and a constant assault on basic human rights, maybe we should try something else.
4. jeroenhd ◴[05 Jul 25 21:50 UTC] No.44475859[source]▶
> However for many others sex is like drugs: it overrides their self-control system and they become addicts. How do you make a law in this situation?

For some, food is like drugs: it overrides their self-control system and they become addicts. How do you make a law in that situation? Or is investing in Novo Nordisk across the North Sea good enough?