In addition, sociological research done in the Netherlands has shown that trafficking of women is no small problem. The Scandinavian countries estimate that there are far fewer foreign women working in prostitution in their countries than in the rest of Europe. Two countries more affected by trafficking are Finland and Denmark. In the spring of 1994, the Helsinki police reported a huge change in the Finnish sex industry, noting that many women were brought to work as prostitutes from Russia and the Baltics. Four years ago in Helsinki the first Russian sex club opened.
Today there are more than twenty.
For the most part, the clubs are managed by Finns, although occasionally one meets a Russian owner. According to police statistics, in 1994 over 200 women citizens of Estonia and Russia worked in these clubs. In Sweden, a special investigative group led by the Ministry of Social Policy is now studying the level of prostitution in the country and trying to shed light on the influence of international migration into Sweden. The preliminary results indicated that the number of foreign prostitutes working in the Swedish sex industry is not large, in part thanks to measures taken to halt prostitution. This is the current situation, but there is no way to predict what will happen in the future.