In the French Parliament on Monday, September 21st, lawmakers began debating Bill 3106, which was introduced on August 11th, 2026. If passed, the bill would expand France’s current model of client criminalisation to include online sex work and it would view platforms such as fan sites and camming sites as third parties. This bill echoes what we saw in Sweden last summer with the passing of new legislation to criminalise online sex work. Strass- Syndicat reports that Article 1 of the bill denies sex workers’ consent. Article 25 criminalises online sex work. Article 47 lifts medical confidentiality, meaning that health workers would be able to report to authorities those individuals who they viewed as “at risk,” without the consent of the individuals themselves. Article 26 conflates pornography with revenge porn under the regulation of image rights. Lastly, they underscore that Articles 8,13,16 and 17 of the proposed legislation all reflect a “purely punitive vision,” rather than the “application of labor law,” in respect to sex workers.
“STRASS calls on parliamentarians to reject this deadly vision and finally listen to the expertise of those most directly affected.” Read Strass-Syndicat’s full breakdown of the proposed law here. They have also provided an open letter template here for community members to write to MPs against the bill.
