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Illegal to watch this movie in Sweden -will there be mass arrests?


In Sweden it is illegal to look at child pornography.

Child pornography is defined as any visual medium that depicts (through any description, visual or textual) a human being under the age of 18 in a sexual manner.
There have been cases where people have been found guilty of possession of child pornography when all they had was a stylized character (a few black lines on white) and a context describing the character as being a minor.

In this movie one of the characters is clearly described as being 16, and he is shown to have sex in several scenes -with an adult.

This is clearly a case of child pornography according to Swedish law.
So to see this movie in Sweden would be illegal.

Question; will the Swedish authorities follow the law to the letter or will they fail in their mission?

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Mass arrests I doubt it, based on the reviews around the internet about this film I highly doubt many people will buy it.

However if they do I hope they do get arrested.

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