Bjorgvin Bjorgvinsson, head of the Icelandic police sexual crimes division, said yesterday that there is no doubt that the newspaper Frettabladid has been advertising prostitution in its classified ads section. The paper says it has done nothing wrong. Read the full story

Danish police have rescued a Lithuanian teenager, who was being held as a sex slave in Copenhagen, after she managed to secretly email a friend in her home country. Read the full story

A kinky hotel in Stockholm, which offers guests complimentary sex toys with their rooms, has been slammed by police for glorifying the sex trade. Read the full story

Swedish Liberal Party MP Camilla Lindberg has called for the legalisation of prostitution and greater social security for sex workers. Read the full story

Beatrice Ask, the Swedish justice minister, has suggested that families be informed in situations where fathers or husbands are suspected of purchasing sex. “It is a little like being shamed on the town square,” said the government minister at a seminar last week. Read the full story

A Gothenburg businessman is facing charges of procuring sexual favours after he was the unwitting victim of a plan by a trio of women to make fast money to fund their night out. Read the full story

Two women accused of human trafficking prostitutes, have been put into custody without bail until 11th December. Their victims in the case number at least three and police are also investigating those purchasing the sexual services that were on offer. Read the full story

The level of foreign prostitution has risen back to those last seen prior to the Norwegian government’s implementation of a ban on purchasing sexual services. The public broadcaster NRK has revealed that statistics compiled by the Oslo Pro Centre show that prostitution figures in Oslo are now comparable to those of two years ago. The ban on sexual service purchasing has been in force for nearly one year. Read the full story

The sex trade is alive and well in Iceland; which includes illegal prostitution and human trafficking, according to one of Iceland’s EUROPOL representatives. He says that Icelandic law enforcement agencies are worried because the problem appears to be growing. Read the full story

After sweeping the streets of Norway’s capital Oslo clean of prostitutes last year, city police were a bit shocked to discover that the pros are back and their numbers are just as high as they were before the clean-up effort. Oslo passed a ban on open prostitution and the purchase of sex services in 2008 in a bid to clean up the image of their city.
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