The Swedish government wants to make paying for sexual services online a criminal offense. The law could have global implications for online services and put creators at risk, warns Yigit Aydin. He fights for the rights of sex workers on behalf of the association ESWA.
Your assumption is both false and seems racist. How the heck do you get the idea that Swedish sexual morals would be defined by people thousands of kilometres away?
Sweden has a long lasting history of being more strict around alocohol, drugs and prostitution. Sexual morals in Europe are predominantly shaped by the dominant christian church, be it catholic or protestant. Both the catholic and protestants are their own makings of Europe and during the crusades European Christians often slaughtered orthodox Christian.
Muslim countries have been more progressive on issues such as abortions and reproductive healthcare and partly seen a regression since the christian colonizers. Prostitution has always been illegal under Muslim law, but it also has been illegal in Christian Europe and legality is more the exception than the rule even today. Again the idea that this would somehow be the “fault” of “Middle-east religions” is absurd. This is some 1500 years “home made” European stances.
Wow. Please define “racist” for me, and show how it has anything to do with religion.
Ok, you’ve just misunderstood me (no, this time it really wasn’t me being unclear, sorry).
The “middle east religions” are Judaism, Christianity and Islam (I listed them in chronological order, please don’t be triggered again). Is the expression not in use where you live? Even so, how the hell did you think I could mean Islam? Why would I do it in such a roundabout way and using plural?
You are the first person i came across referring to them as “Middle East religions”. This also seems quite strange, as Western Christian dominated countries do not refer to the Abrahamic religions as such. Then again what became of Christian in various places of the world has little to do with the region.
Or do you consider modern beer to be Iraqi? Your computer as Babylonian text editor? Do you call the cash in your wallet Chinese money? Are the British just Saxons to you and the Germans, Czech, Polish and other Slavic people are just Indians anyways?
Fair enough :) I’ll take that as an apology for having labeled me as racists for no reason.
For future reference, you might also hear “desert religions” (yeah, it’s not like all the deserts in the world are there) or “the three monotheist religions” (yeah, I know those are not the only ones): it means the same thing.
Yeah but the view on prostitution is shared (by and large) in the three religions we are talking about: it’s not a Christian-only thing and it’s not something that developed in Europe alone (well, as far as I know: we are still commenting on what I referred to as an assumption - ie. I’m not 100% sure about this).
I could certainly say “IDK where beer comes from, I assume it’s from Mesopotamia?” though?
I’ll leave it to you to re-read what I wrote originally and find the flaw if this last comment of yours.
In reality, I guess I just made you angry… I’m Sorry about that, but “racist” is one of the very few things I don’t allow people to call me, so I took off my gloves.
I think that’s a reference to the 3 Abrahamic religions all of which originated in the Middle East - and of those Christianity most certainly is shaping the morals of Sweden (or at the least certainly has in the past)
(Judaism, Christianity and Islam being the “big 3 abrahamic” - Zoroastrianism & Bahai aren’t really in the same category worldwide and aren’t Abrahamic as far as I am aware)