State policy, popular discourse, and the silence on homosexual acts in early modern Sweden.
In Sweden, homosexual acts between men were mentioned in secular law for the first time in 1608. Despite the explicit criminalization, very few trials are known from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the new National Law Code of 1734 contained no sanction at all. The central issue of this essay is how the insignificant number of court cases and the seemingly very limited judicial interest in the issue of sodomy in Early Modern Sweden should be interpreted. The silence of the new law is explained by a shift in the official policy from deterrence to a policy of silence, but the low number of court cases was foremost dependent on a lacking actualization andindicated, women are referred to a breast team of a nearby hospital.

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All women participating in the screening programme at Preventicon screening centre between October 2003 and December 2007 were included in the study. In the first year after the introduction of the FFDM system only women attending their first screening examination were offered digital mammography. One year after the introduction, FFDM also became available for women attending subsequent screens. Assignment of women to FFDM or SFM was based on the random availability of the units when participants presented at the screening centre. However, women who already had a previous digital screening mammogram were always offered FFDM.

Participants were informed in writing about the possibility of having a digital mammogram. They had the right to refuse this offer