This article explores the discourse on prostitution, trafficking, and
buying sex. Buying sex or the purchase of sexual services, as the law
says, has been a criminal act in Sweden since 1999. In the summer of
2006 Finland followed the lead, making it a crime to purchase sex from a
person who has been subjected to trafficking or procuring. These
reforms give a signal that the customers are responsible for increasing
the international sex trade, but as the author argues, the commercial
language used by the law makers may be a double-edged sword.