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As a french guy (who has been to sweden numerous times) I found the swedish point of view on sex quite “normal”. I mean it doesn’t seem really different to the behaviors I know and have been having all this years. I’ve also been in Germany quite a bunch of times as well as in Czech Republic and in the United States and the answer is the same : european people seem less embarrassed/ more free about sex than american people. For example, it would never come to one’s mind in France, Germany or Czech Republic to say that the best way to prevent unwanted pregnancies or STDs is abstinence. That’s just not in our culture. People here like sex and think that having sex before marriage is normal. I mean, you always try a car before buying it, right ?
On the other hand people in the United states seem to be over sensitive when it comes to this subject. Parents don’t talk about it with their children, hoping that it will prevent them to get in troubles. Well… figures have shown that the result of this kind of behaviors is exactly what it was supposed to prevent : teen moms and STDs. It also seems that people in America tend to get married earlier which, in Europe, is a sign of lack of education and money. We think that getting married before the age of 25 means that you didn’t study (which, in our minds, means that you’re poor and uneducated). You look even more uneducated if you get pregnant at a young age, people will look at you and think that your parents are poor uneducated biggots who didn’t taught you how to use a condom or take a pill.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that it’s a good thing, that’s just the way it is.

Thee are also exceptions, especially in southern countries like Italy or Spain. Spanish people have the reputation of being very catholic (although they legalized gay marriage 3 years ago) and sure thing is that you cannot show the same things on spanish tv than on swedish tv. Two years ago a french tv network called Canal + produced and aired a very good tv show that had a lot of success and was about the life in a brothel (a whore house) in Paris during the 19th century. People asked the executives if they sold this tv show abroad (because it was really successful in France) and they answered that they had troubles to export it because southern countries like Spain told them that it was too graphic for prime time tv and northern countries like Sweden told them that they weren’t showing enough (in their opinion, if you’e talking about whores you’ve got to show every detail of it).

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No we are not overlliberal and the ones that do not get laid In most circumstances do not flee abroad. Having a liberal approach to sex does not Automaticly mean that we are a country of people screwing around like rabbits. It just means that when it comes to sex people can have it together without feeling the shame of a loose thing and isstead seeing it for what it is, 2 adult people concenting and enjoying the moment. And yes jut like in other country’s the children’s parents say that their kids should wait with sex, even though experimenting is fine, we all have to find out who we are.

And when it comes to guys flying abroad to get laid, that is just stupid and ignorant, it’s like saying that all the bullied and single guys in America that can’t find a girl glue to Mexico to have sex. Like everywhere else we have the entire spectrum of people here from really liberal to really strikt ( and the pardise hotel thing, people generally think those people are retarded) the only difference is that Swedish youths in a lot of circumstances are not afraid to come out of the closet becouse of fear of non aceptans, and people talk openly about all forms of sex, to educate them selfs or others. There is a saying here in Sweden: if your in a crowd and no one is talking to eachother, start talking sex.

and the whole thing it’s something we all do, something we have to do so why treat it like the end result is dmnation in hell

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