[chilepepper]

about 14 years ago (when i saved up enough money to be able to afford it) i headed off to europe and went through sweden on my way to norway (a much nicer country IMHO). i stopped off in Gotteborg for a night, and late that evening turned on the regular TV channels to see what programs there were.

as you might expect, there was a lot of sex on the channels (NOT cable, these were the regular TV channels!!!).

so, that's what you would expect on sweden you might say? well,*every single one* of the sex programs was gay or lesbian, or sado-masochist, or violent or something. there were *NO* depictions i could tell of normal heterosexual sex.

my lasting impression of sweden is one of degeneracy... i really feel sorry for the swedes.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Funny you should write this.....Having lived in Sweden for three years then living there 50% for the last 2 1/2, I know you hit the nail on the head about the TV. One channel is Swedish Nickelodeon from 6 am to 6 pm then Nature takes over until midnight then from midnight to 6 am is Playboy. God forbid my 3 year old gets up a little early.

Not to mention the HARD CORE porrfilmer on Canal Blu, Canal Gul and Canal Plus.

And that is just a few of the channals. The others have their own sex shows as well.

Very interesting TV!!!

[driftless]

"impression of Sweden"

I thought something had really gone bad in Sweden when a few years ago I saw a photo in a foreign newspaper of some Swedish parents presenting their teenage daughter and her boyfriend flowers in bed after the kids had just slept together for the first time. There was the accompanying story about how great the whole thing was. I just felt sad for the Swedes.

[red irish]

My daughter was married to a Swede and him and his family were the nicest people. When my daughter went to Sweden to visit her in laws she was surprised to say the least at what was shown on tv. they also have very long vacations because of the very long times of darkness due to winter. There is alot of drinking and people are more or less expected to live together before they are married if they ever get married. Now her inlaws were a little consevative and dearly love the US. In fact they have an American flag that flies over their front yard which I sent over to them. When my daughter was married many of my son-in-laws family came over and we had one heck of a reception!But sadly the marriage did not last!