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Email newsletters Newsletter sign-up Edit my subscriptions. Swedish government wants to criminalize paying for sex abroad Twenty years ago, Sweden became the first country in the world to criminalize paying for sex, and now it wants to pave the way in making it illegal to pay for sex abroad, with a law proposal the government presented on Thursday.
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