ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how those same abolitionist discourses, and additionally the resultant social constructions of sex workers have come to affect sex workers direct experiences of Swedish service provision. It initially discusses the experiences of more general healthcare and service provision. Given the harms that can accompany sex work, sex workers require targeted, high quality and accessible service provision. Yet this is unavailable in much of Sweden, in spite of the country being generally perceived as one of the world's most successful welfare states. Sex workers experiences of the Stockholm Prostitution Unit might be expected to be less problematic than those of non-specialized service providers, given the targeted specialization of the organization. Attitudes of some Swedish service providers are informed and structured by the sexkopslagen's abolitionist discursive backdrop, not by suitability for individual sex workers nuanced and variable situations and requirements.
