ABSTRACT
This chapter explores whether sex work has diminished as per the intention of the abolitionist sexkopslagen legislation. It examines whether law and policy had the result of spatially disrupting sex work, since criminalisation has often had this impact. The chapter also examines the levels of sex work in Sweden. It then describes the spaces of the sex industry, predominantly in the urban spaces of the Swedish capital of Stockholm, as well as to a lesser extent Malmo and Gothenburg. Nigerian migrant sex workers in particular catalysed the introduction of a sex purchase criminalisation in Norway. Street sex work in the southern city of Malmo is more isolated than in Stockholm, located in a fairly abandoned industrial area outside the centre of the city, concentrated in the streets of Celsiusgatan, Industrigatan and Agneslundsvagen. Sex workers are seen as innocent victims and simultaneously as a threat to Norwegian masculinity and heteronormativity.
