March 22, 2010
Published: 23 Dec 09 13:39 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/24026/20091223/
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Young Swedes have ever more fluid definitions of sex and sexuality, according to a new study from Malmö University in southern Sweden. Women in particular are more likely to pursue sexual activities with others of the same gender.
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It probably has as much influence as a portion of surströmming.
However after spending several months during winters in Sweden I can see how the extended periods of darkness can bring people down, and no amount of praying will change that.
Based on my observation of young Swedish women during the summer months, I dont blame them, they are hot!
If this is true , what kind of men have to live there to make women looking for "something else" .....and also , what different, women expect to find in the " mirror " ?
This is simply another piece of the relativism - nihilism - existentialism puzzle that explains why the Swedish culture and people have rendered themselves unsustainable and are dying out.
Women enjoy have sex with other women.
So you mean all of those porn moives are true.
It's a good christmas after all.
If this is the sign of human being then according to my opinion, Swedis should be proud of their animals also. Because, then they bring all the animals upto the level of human i.e human == animal. Because animal has their freedom to do sex to any/all other animals of their kind even with their own brothers,sisters, parents.
your post is weird
Finally beginning to understand the real reasons behind the Govts liberal immigration policies.
My thoughts exactly; you beat me to it. The innie goes with the outie. Birth rate decline problem solved.
Roy, which mosque do you attend?
... wonder to what extent this confusion contributes to Sweden's ... suicide rates.
I love it when people talk about Sweden's "HIGH" suicide rates because it is an "URBAN MYTH"!!!
Yes at one time Sweden statistically had the highest suicide rate in the world!!! When in fact the suicide rate in Sweden has ALWAYS been somewhere near the middle for rates compared to the planet as a whole!!!
So why did Sweden get the reputation for having the highest in the world?
There seems to be 2 reasons for this URBAN MYTH!
1. statistics accumulated by the SECULAR State without regard to religious prejudice.
2. American propaganda!
Sweden was one of the first countries that kept accurate track of suicides when in fact other countries refused to admit they even had any suicides! Many "religious" countries cannot admit it because Suicide was/is the ULTIMATE SIN AGAINST GOD!!! Even to this day many islamic countries, and "Utopian dictatorships", will not admit to having suicides. I personally knew a couple of cases in the USA where suicides were ruled "accidental" for religious (and economic) reasons!
Most interesting contribution to this URBAN MYTH was that in the 50's and 60's, the USA needed to DEMONIZE Sweden because Sweden was showing itself to be more successful than the US. The US needed to stop Swedish "socialism" from coming to the US. So the word went out from the highest official in the land that; "If the Swedish system is so great, why do they have the highest suicide rate in the world?"
The Swedish Suicide Urban Myth was born and has stayed alive and well ever since then!
Discussing suicide rates for the planet as a whole is a worthless endeavor because very few countries keep accurate records!
@Roy E says - ... wonder to what extent this confusion contributes ...
Confusion is a funny word to use here because the REALITY that IS human sexuality is frequently CONFUSED by religions and religiously "moral" people. Therefore "moral" people frequently accuse people, who's actions they do not understand, as being confused when in fact it is themselves that are confused!
I agree with StockholmSam's assessment of "pushing the envelope".
I disagree, I think its you who is bringing women down to the level of animals...
"Swedis should be proud of their animals also. "
Wooden horses... yes.
Wolves.... not so much.
My rate of success in approaching girls in any other country that i have been was more than 80%.
Yet here is less than 20%. and so far nothing after almost 6 months.
As i can see , they prefer someone who they knew already in case of socialize or more.
I think partially is about concept of culture , trusting to opposite sex, and maybe partially prejudice of being foreigner, for me particularly.
Månsson uses words like "free, open, no longer rigid" instead of words like deviant, non-traditional, normal. As though it is the greatest and most nobel thing to do. It's very stange when we let a small minority change our preceptions to make deviant behavior seem normal as though everyone is doing it or if your not then you must be strange or deviant yourself. I think it's called marketing.
I think Swedes should worry more about Swedish propaganda than American.
Oddly enough...and this does not make headline news...1 out of 10 Swedish men (again not scientific) are getting it on with the dog...who was also male....
The other two Swedish guys were inventing a protein stain removal formula using common house hold items which they later patented.
I believe Swedish women have been conditioned to celebrate their undeniable beauty. Juxtaposed to this is us Swedish guys who, more often than not, are kinda ugly (look at Bjorn Ulvaeus). It sort of averages things out with the rest of the world.
/they're going to hell anyway: http://www.urinalgum.com/?p=375
Since Swedish women are not breeding anymore but instead prefering to just play with themselves and satisfy their maternal instincts by keeping dogs and immigrants are doubling theirs when they get here, native Swedes will die out.
Strange thing. Whatever caused this! May be the men have low libido. Or the sperm count is low and they shoot blanks and they've stopped trying. Govt needs to get to the bottom of this.
In addition, who really cares anyway about the sexual preferences of "some" Swedish women?
I know of an islamic country where women are much more open to sexuality than these swedes can ever be. the figures are way higher. and it's because of many thing, among those, - and that will come as a shock to all of you. but it only reminds you of how little you know compared to how much you think you know - in Islam, it is not forbidden for women to have sex with women! so it didn't interfere with an already existing openness towards sex!
In my personal opinion, there's no religion that is more about sex than Islam. seriously.
and although i'm not at all religious, i still think people should know better!
himilo
Anyway, this study was not scientific -- uncontrolled data sources. If The Local were journalists they would have commented on the data collection method and the bias comments of the researcher. I'm not sure that journalism is the objective of the Local, so we really can't blame them.
This is fantastic news for women but not that great for men as they don't yet feel free to express their true emotions publicly.
Men do fantasize about having sexual experiences with other men or otherwise porn would completely exclude male actors.
Men also engage in sex with other men but still to a great extent do so secretly which is one of the reasons HIV/AIDS continues to spread despite all available info on prevention and testing.
Any society would be wise to approve of natural human sexual behavior and accurate sexual education for basic reasons like safety and emotional balance which result from the knowledge that one can be and live authentically.
As to the beautiful and wise Swedish women, the DNA of ancient Amazons is alive and thriving.
Sexual and emotional satisfaction of women does not depend on the masculinity of men, but rather on the men's intellect, education, respect , and emotional/sexual appeal.
And when it comes to ugly men, they can be found in every country in the world, with the ugliest part being their stupidity.
Roy E - excellent comment.
I believe there is no god or gods that punish you to be a homosexual!
I've heard lots of negative things about Swedish women from Swedish guys. Stories I have heard include things like shallowness, fickleness, superficial. narcissistic, self-centered, gold digger, opportunist, users etc...
A nice well educated young man from a good family will surly get trampled by such amazons. Because he is young and naive he has no clue how to read these vixens and ends up badly hurt and disillussioned about love and relationships. I should know, because it happened to me.
Let them all crawl under the sheets and suckle each others privates while we all stand around and fret about our disappearing population.
However, why would the swedes risk dying out because women sleep with women sometimes?
It says nowhere that they sleep *only* with other women, and in addition 30% is hardly 100%.
Have any of you heard about bellcurves?
For sexuality, if I recall my numbers right, it goes something like:
Hetero - Bi - Homo
Males: 25 - 60 - 15
Females: 20 - 60 - 20
And those are not hard numbers for just three solid positions. The 'curve' is more fluid, going from purely hetero - mostly hetero, slightly bi - half hetero, half bi, slight hetero, mostly bi - fully bi - mostly bi, slightly homo - half bi, half homo - slightly bi, mostly homo - fully homo.
To further complicate things, people move back and forth along the curve during both stages (physical/hormonal as well as economical/social) and according to the mood (long term/short term).
Though that might be too reasonable for a online comment section to be interesting, along with being tl;dr... :P
There was a similar report about the US, so you can't go there either.
The islamic country in question, is it on planet Earth, ya Deema, or is it in your imagination?
A feminist woman in Sweden will say: "Woman are a more attractive sex than men".
There is a fundamental difference between how men view women across the world and how men view women in Sweden. Swedish men simply don't show to swedish women that they are attracted to them...not even physically. This has created a very hostile environment where women simply reciprocate by not showing men that they are attracted to them. Some women hate men so much that they try to show them that men are irrelevant in their lives. Sweden has some HUGE problems to deal with.
1) Neurotic, passive males who are confused as to what women want and may find it hard to socialize or commit on a deep level.
2) Males who, as an act of rebellion against the attempts to castrate them will try to become hyper-masculine as a defense mechanism -- drink too much, try to have sex sith as many women as possible, and be quite obnoxious.
3) Males who are either clever enough to see the advantages of rejecting the constraints of the matriarchal system, or are somewhat psychopathic, who will adopt a masculine persona even if it causes their personality to clash with some of the outspoken females.
The irony is that #s 2 and 3 get girls while #1 sits at home and drinks or downloads porn. Of course, for long-term commitment a #1 is okay and a # 2 is a disaster in the making. The #3s are the best, but in a society of lax sexual morals there is, for some reason, a stigma against polygamy. So if we let evolution take its course, and change our laws, the #3s will marry and reproduce with many women and create a bulk of the next generation. The #2s will,and do, create a lot of children but generally don't marry the mother. The #1s eventually marry the mothers and raise the children of the #2s.
but also this girls they talking about is more nightclub,vs pornstars,models women
they are aslo women that is not at all like this but you never see them in media and so on.
but i see many lesbian in sweden and im from sweden my self but you meet them very often girls kissing girls.
i knew this seens many years, so it no news for me.
but i dont like when peolpe say sweden has the most beutifuls girls.I belive in every country is nice hot girls depend what can of taste you have as man/woman to the girl...