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

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84 points diggan | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.58s | source
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giantg2 ◴[05 Jul 25 20:21 UTC] No.44475255[source]▶
"The power imbalance between the buyer and the person induced to commit the act persists regardless of whether the act takes place in a physical space or in front of a camera."

Just imagine if they regulated labor in other industries this way. Employer-employee power imbalance is immense.

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oezi ◴[05 Jul 25 21:09 UTC] No.44475565[source]▶
In all (most?) European countries we have a lot of protections exactly due to this. Minimum wage, minimum holidays, max working hours, minimum break times, paid sick leave. Employers would starve employees if oversupply of workers and governments would let them.
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1. jeroenhd ◴[05 Jul 25 21:55 UTC] No.44475880[source]▶
Funnily enough, by not recognising sex work as a job, sex workers actually lack these protections in many European countries.

Furthermore, in Nordic countries, minimum wage and such are not government-mandated, but maintained by collective bargaining agreements negotiated by powerful unions. In Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and also Italy, there is no legally defined minimum wage.