Sweden’s government has asked the country’s Parliament to amend its laws regarding buying sexual services, so they include giving money to people remotely to perform sex acts, effectively making services like watching explicit cams illegal to consenting adults in the country.
The request to change the law raises the prospect of people in Sweden facing prosecution if they pay cammers to perform sex acts during livestreams or otherwise online, or buy custom porn from adult content creators. In Sweden it’s illegal to buy or procure sexual services in-person, but sex workers giving the services are not prosecuted.
Sweden’s Ministry of Justice said it wanted laws around procuring sex acts expanded to include doing so “remotely, i.e. without physical contact”. In its bill, the ministry proposed introducing the expansion of the laws on July 1, 2025.
Although the proposed sexual procurement law expansions could potentially lead to prosecutions for people watching and interacting with adult content rather than the sex workers making it, they have raised concern that they could lead to a clampdown on sex worker online platforms.
A Sweden-based adult content creator who performs under the name Cara, who uses platforms such as OnlyFans and [NSFW] Chaturbate, told XBiz that she feared that platforms may push out Swedish creators due to fears about abetting illegal activity.
“If this law takes effect, we stand to lose our entire livelihoods overnight as platforms are forced to exclude Swedish creators. Lawmakers claim this is meant to protect us, but how is forcing us into poverty, isolation and legal jeopardy a form of protection?” she says.
Another adult content performer, Sanna Zentio, who uses OnlyFans, told Sweden’s TV4 that “it feels like the politicians don’t really understand what we are working with digitally or actually doing.”
Zentio added: “Many of us work very independently, safely and legally, and a proposal like this risks hitting hard on those who have chosen to leave the traditional sex industry for a safer and more controlled work environment.”
A 2024 survey of adult content creators, using a pool of people primarily from the US, found that around 85 percent of survey respondents used OnlyFans for their work.
Making ‘home-made’ adult content has emerged as an important revenue stream for many porn performers in recent years, with various online platforms popping up to serve them.
Companies like Lovense and Kiiroo have started creating products marketed directly to porn cammers, such as webcams designed to be operated ‘hands-free’ during live streams.
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