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Not any more. Stockholm (and Sweden in general) has problem with rape:

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-r...

I'm generally the person to be very critical of Sweden, but this is somewhat unfair as the definition of "Rape" in Sweden is incredibly broad, and includes people who can't give consent such as those experiencing fear.

Heck in 2018 they passed a law that says "Any sex act which does not have explicit consent is rape"[0] including those where there are no threats, coercion or violence of any kind.

I mockingly considered creating a "consent" app which could be signed with BankID.

Sweden is also unique in that it counts every offence as an occurrence of rape- meaning that if you're "raped by your husband 12 times a year" those are 12 separate cases of rape and not 1 (like it would be in the UK).

There is also speculation that in Sweden they take rape reports very seriously, which leads to more people coming forward with cases of rape.

This line of thinking has been discussed before, sadly by the extreme far right.[1]

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44230786

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39056786

> I'm generally the person to be very critical of Sweden, but this is somewhat unfair as the definition of "Rape" in Sweden is incredibly broad, and includes people who can't give consent such as those experiencing fear.

I'm unsure if I'm reading the way you worded this incorrectly or not.

Are you saying people who are too scared to say no are only included because the definition is "incredibly broad"?! Do you think people too scared to say no shouldn't be included?

If so, I'd argue you must have a very narrow personal definition, which worries me.

I'm critical of Sweden in that the people have blind trust of authority and are failing to integrate people (this includes me, as a British migrant), and will go to great lengths to avoid any mention of demographics when talking about crime. Talking about it _at all_ will get you branded a racist.

However I'm saying that the definition of rape in Sweden is broader than other countries and encompasses more things, so the same action in the UK could be classified as domestic violence or sexual harassment (thus, not rape) but in Sweden it would be rape.

For one (of many) example(s), in the UK it's impossible for a woman to rape a man, because legally the perpetrator needs to penetrate the victim. This is not the case in Sweden.

The point I imagine is that few other countries count rape statistically that way.

Statistics from between 10-16 years ago.

Not sure how it is remotely relevant to life today.

This section of Wikipedia article refers to data from 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden#Birthplace_of_p...

Is this recent enough?

'Rape' is a very grey crime, and it depends entirely on so many factors.

So 'rape' is the crime that's really not worthy of easy comparison between nations.

Like if you were a grad student, literally doing a thesis on it - ok, but otherwise, it's just a chunky one.

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