“OnlyFans” is a subscription-based social media platform where content creators charge users to view their content.
This controversial platform has made headlines all over the world for the content that’s posted. As Townhall previously covered, one OnlyFans “creator” slept with over 1,000 men in one day and documented it on the platform. Her subscribers paid to see this content.
This week, reports broke that Sweden would be cracking down on OnlyFans.
Going forward, OnlyFans users in Sweden could face prison sentences under the law, which treats buying “online sex” as the same as paying a prostitute for sex. Additionally, the law criminalizes profiting from or promoting others who perform sexual acts for payment on demand.
This means that it will be illegal to pay an OnlyFans “creator” to carry out a sexual act remotely, such as on a video livestream, with the specific intent of being viewed by the buyer.
The law will take effect July 1.
“This is a new form of sex purchase, and it’s high time we modernize the legislation to include digital platforms,” Swedish member of parliament Teresa Carvalho stated after the bill passed (via New York Post):
Carvalho, who is part of Sweden’s left-wing opposition party, the Social Democrats, said the law is not aimed at targeting OnlyFans models themselves.
Instead, she said it will protect young people and other individuals vulnerable to exploitation.
She pointed to links between online exploitation and grooming with drug abuse, human trafficking, and prostitution.
The bill was proposed by the Swedish parliament’s justice committee and received cross-party backing.
"This is about digitalized prostitution, where the boundaries between pornography and human trafficking are blurred but where exploitation and abuse are present," TT news agency quoted Social Democrat lawmaker Sanna Backeskog saying during the parliamentary debate over the law.
