Travelgirl's comment ·
Thank you so much for all this information, I'm sure many escorts will find it helpful, at least I really do. I had a similar experience like Laura several years ago and the police didn't even bother to knock on the door - after they sent me a fake client to find out how to get to my place, they waited for another client to come (not sure if he wasn't one of them, because he was really strange), they lockpicked the door and ran into the apartment like in some action movie, just at the time they knew I would be making out with him (15 min after he came). Then the similar procedure like Laura describes followed and I complied with everything as I was scared to death. I cannot express how frightened and violated I felt from how they ran in and how they treated me after.
I left the country after one day in the social workers shelter to which the policemen tricked me to go and was still shivering 2 days after. After that experience, I lost all the trust in the Swedish police and the system in general and didn't ever come to work to Sweden ever again, because it didn't feel safe to me. The experience has traumatized me for years, literally all my trust in that I would get help if i needed from the only people who have a legal obligation to provide it shattered into pieces and no one in my life before or after has ever made me feel that helpless and humiliated like they did (funny considering how hard they were trying to convince me that I'm a poor victim who needs their help and my clients are some evil monsters). Yes, they were "nice" to me, but in a way that makes you feel like a piece of cr.p and like you are a less of a person if you work as an escort. Yes, it's been several years ago and the trauma still lives with me.
I've worked in several countries across Europe and I've never had any such experience in any other country (including Norway and France where they also follow the "brilliant" Nordic Model. In all other countries the police is actually there to help people, including escorts, not to bully and traumatize them! I can't belive that the Police in Sweden does what it does and how on the Earth it's legal! And they've been doing this for years... Actually I do know how they get away with it - they do this to some of the most vulnerable people, foreign escorts who are alone in the country and don't have the information and many of them actually take police as a kind of authority (which it actually is for many people in many countries).
So why am I writing this? I can see from your reply that you have a lot of knowledge about how the law and the police works. Do you think that the way the police proceeds with the escorts is in accordance with Swedish law as we don't do anything illegal? I consider what they do wrong on every level and I've read about multiple experiences like this, so I wonder if there's anything escorts could do to stop this from happenning, like contacting a sexwork organization with this information (if there's any Swedish sexwork organization that actually helps escorts) or find a lawyer to file a class-action lawsuit. Thanks ahead for a reply.