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Under current Swedish law, someone can be prosecuted for rape only if it is proven that they used threats or violence. Under the proposal, rape could be proven if the claimant did not give his or her explicit verbal agreement or clearly demonstrate a desire to engage in sexual activity. [J4MB: So could a man claim (truthfully or otherwise) that a woman had said something along the lines of, “Sven, my powerful love machine, I give you my explicit verbal agreement to sexual intercourse, and by playing with my exposed genitalia in an enthusiastically erotic fashion, I shall demonstrate my desire to engage in sexual activity with you, but before we proceed, can you please put on the Abba Greatest Hits CD? Silly me, I can never work out how to use the bloody CD player. Thanks!” and not be prosecuted?]
Stefan Lofven, the prime minister, said the “historic reform”, which his coalition has been preparing since taking power in 2014, aims to shift the burden of proof from the claimant in a rape or sexual assault case to the alleged attacker.
Addressing victims, he said: “Society is standing by your side.”
If the bill is approved, it would go into effect on 1 July.
The proposal is part of a series of initiatives being put forward. Others would make it illegal for Swedes to hire prostitutes abroad and increase sentences for offenders. Buying sex in Sweden is already illegal.
I predict we’ll have the Scandinavian model of criminalising male clients of prostitutes within the next five years.
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I wonder whether it will have to be notarized, or otherwise not recognized by authorities as legally binding.. why have all the European men become so incredibly stupid to assume women are fit to govern ? They clearly are not.
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“why have all the European men become so incredibly stupid to assume women are fit to govern ?…”
Manginas are not fit to govern, either. They are too easily manipulated and led.
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Good point archer !
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Well in fact this is effectively the case in English Law already, where the test is consent. English law is also unusually restricted in what is considered “rape”. So in fact the new Swedish law may still not be as “feminist” as English Law which defines Rape as penetrative sex without consent. Not surprised at the stuff about sex abroad as its pretty easy for Swedes to hop on board a plane or drive to another more liberal country. Sweden remains a minority in not taking the “German” model of legal regulated “sex work” .
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I could be wrong – it happened, once – but I understand the model is common across Scandinavia. Iceland sought to stop people accessing pornography.
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Does that mean that Icelandic women wouldn’t be able to read 50 shades of Gray? Or does that count as erotica rather than pornography? I suspect that it might.
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Apparently sexual abuse is okey-dokey if done by a billionaire who later marries you. The spirit of Jane Austen lives on in S&M.
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Well its really interesting because one might get that impression because a lot of noise in the European Parliament etc. a couple of years ago. But of course the Euro Parliament doesn’t make legislation for members. so in fact despite the impression the outlawing of buying sex still makes Sweden an outlier in the actual legislation passed. Swedes can travel at the moment to Denmark, the Baltic States, Germany Poland and Norway . Hence I presume the wish to make this illegal in Sweden precisely because other nations didn’t follow suit. It seems to me quite often the Guardian and others exaggerate what is happening abroad to give the impression the UK is “out of step”.
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This is something I notice used a lot and on all sides of an argument. But what the hell does it really matter what other countries are doing? What matters is what is right, and what is right is NOT sending a man to be brutally raped (real rape) in prison for the rest of his life based on a woman’s say so.
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Sweden is the worst country on the planet for men to live. The most feminist crazy and unrealistic. Small wonder one after another Swedish companies are taken over and controlled by foreigners. That’s what happens when women’s issues become more important than economy and national security.
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‘The “historic reform”… aims to shift the burden of proof from the claimant in a rape or sexual assault case to the alleged attacker.’ Thus the onus switches from the claimant to prove a crime to the accused to prove his innocence, and the fundamental principle of presumption of innocence is destroyed. One can only hope that Stefan Lofven is one of the first to be falsely accused.
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Which would bring Sweden to the point we are already at, as has at last been noticed by sections of the Political elite.
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Oh – apparently this was false reporting or wishful thinking and the Grauniad has published a correction.
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“Stefan Lofven, the prime minister, said the “historic reform”, which his coalition has been preparing since taking power in 2014, aims to shift the burden of proof from the claimant in a rape or sexual assault case to the alleged attacker.”
First of all, this man is a self-hating traitor and a disgrace to his gender; secondly, aiming to shift the burden of proof to a defendant is a clear violation of human rights, and I hope that we see Sweden being flagged up for this. Finally, let it be noted that in their eagerness to kowtow to women, men in many cases built the structure of the gender tyranny that is going to follow “reforms” like this. Sickening.
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Criminalizing male clients of prostitutes already happens in Northern Ireland,so it’s occuring here and now!!
A 23 year old male was the first one prosecuted recently for trying to buy sex…..the legalisation was introduced by one Lord Morrow who was a DUP minister…..he is a ‘white knight’ who believes men are always at fault in these issues and clearly despises his own gender.
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