Stockholm hotel slammed for sex toys
Published: 26 Sep 10 17:10 CET | Print version
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A trendy Stockholm hotel which offers its guests complimentary sex toys in their rooms has been criticised by police for "glorifying" the sex trade, reported the Svenska Dagbladet daily.
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But the unorthodox move has not met the approval of the authorities.
"The hotel is trying to glorify something that we are working to de-glorify," said Tom Eckerling at Stockholm police to the newspaper.
The hotel has no plans to change its minibar assortment however and reported that the response has been positive from guests, which it claims is made up of a chic fashion, art and music clientèle.
But the hotel told the newspaper that they try to take into account the needs of different groups and usually remove the items from hotel rooms used by families with children, for example.
Stockholm police have for some time been working closely together with the city's hotels to try to stamp out prostitution.
Berns Hotel has for example taken the initiative of removing adult film channels after starting a cooperation with Ecpat, which works to stamp out child prostitution.
Despite the criticism over the innovative assortment, neither Eckerling, nor Berns Hotel reception manager Andreas L'Estrade, expect the sex toys to attract prostitution.
"There is nothing ugly with sex, that is something that we want to show," said L'Estrade to the newspaper.
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de-glorify sex... good luck with that mate!
Sucks that its so popular eh?
Oops!
Swedes sometimes can be very misguided.
Remove sex toys from hotesl: check
Shops still sell sex movies: check
Even apotek still sells sex toys: check
= Absolutely no logic detected.
Conclusion: Stockholm police are a bunch of ****ing morons: check.
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No.
Find dildos in hotel?
Yes.
This is a sign.
now all go have a nice cup of tea and clam down.
got to say from a marketing point of view it worked !
The profit motive encourages innovation but it also encourages crimes of hideous types. The public would need to be on the look. One sure way of doing this to campaign against the reelection of the politician of the district in which the hotel is located. The other is spreading the news that there is a danger of infection in the hotel!
The hotel can direct its guests interested in sex toys to buy them in gift shops or order them from the hotel's front-desk and throw them into a trashcan if the owners have no use for them again.
I wonder how many victims of trafficking were raped yesterday while Tom was getting confused between sex aids and prostitution? I assume Tom plays some kind of role at the police trying to reduce prostitution. Traffickers must be quacking in their boots knowing such a man is hot on their trail.
Ah...ah! Now I know your secret, you like women of ripe age....me,too...same,same
The fact that the HIV can live outside the body for 24 hours is only believed by those who are ignorant of the facts. Every single shred of research on the matter shows that it is a very fragile virus that survives a couple of minutes at most.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/transmission.htm
Please, this is so absurd -- someone send this story to Jay Leno.
Talking seriously seriously, Swedish police obviously lacks success and want' s to earn some goodwill, but this time they shot themselves in the foot.
"Wait, I thought that mullahs rule in Iran not in Sweden. How mistaken I was."
The mullahs sex toys are children.