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Police: Swedish teens offering sex for booze

Swedish teenagers are resorting to increasingly perilous measures in order to get their hands on alcohol, according to police in Stockholm.

Police in the capital have noted that teenagers are more likely than ever before to offer sexual services to people who agree to buy alcohol for them.

"Many young people are prepared to go far to get alcohol, partly as a way of being popular with their friends. But they are not so good at gauging the intentions of the people buying alcohol for them," the police said in a statement.

And it is no longer a case of police watching teenagers make contact with potential buyers on the street, as transactions are often arranged via text message and the internet.

Observation work carried out during the recent autumn school break highlighted one particularly disturbing finding: as the phenomenon of sex for booze becomes more common, known sex offenders have begun to show their faces at liquor stores.

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