The radiation warning barely made a ripple. Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten—the Radiation Safety Authority—issued its alert about "vaginal rejuvenation" treatments causing potential burns. The clinics kept their doors open.
Across Stockholm's private aesthetic centers, the procedures continue. Tens of thousands of kronor for treatments that promise to "tighten" and "rejuvenate." The evidence base, according to multiple authorities, remains thin. The risks, they say, are real.
Meanwhile, Region Stockholm's politicians debate whether patients should film TikTok videos from psychiatric wards. The Christian Democrats want it banned. Sandra, 26, already shared her clips from the psych unit before the controversy erupted.
One involves consenting adults paying premium prices for unproven procedures. The other involves vulnerable patients seeking connection through social media. Guess which one gets the regulatory attention.
The beauty clinics operate in a strange regulatory gap—not quite medical, not quite cosmetic. No one seems particularly interested in closing it. The TikTok ban, however, might reach the national level.
Carl Johan Schiller wants the government to consider whether psychiatric patients should have platform access at all. The radiation authority's warning about potential brännskador gets filed somewhere between the weekend's other Stockholm news: a drunk man surviving a train in Gamla Stan, broken windows in Upplands Väsby.
Priorities reveal themselves in the strangest ways.