February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Erotic":
Lifestyle: 12 Jan 12
An underground Swedish band with a suggestive name has launched a technological treasure hunt through which fans can discover their new song by finding computer memory sticks hidden in public places around the world.
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Society: 13 Dec 11
A Swedish artist recently named as head of “the world’s first international sex school” in Austria has admitted the project was an elaborate hoax.
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Society: 30 Nov 11
Controversial Swedish artist and former presenter of erotic TV, Ylva-Maria Thompson, is to teach Austrian couples about sexual relations, according to a report.
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Society: 28 Oct 11
Students and staff at a Swedish school were shocked to see one of the school cafeteria staff unzip her pants and commence in an erotic pole dance in response to complaints about poorly prepared Swedish pancakes.
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Lifestyle: 12 Jul 11
US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is the subject of a major new exhibition at Stockholm’s Fotografiska museum which recently fell foul of the social media censor, contributor Katherine Dunn paid a visit to see what all the fuss is about.
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Lifestyle: 15 Apr 11
While the National Museum's new "Lust & Vice" exhibition has titillated the viewing public, it has incurred the scorn of an art world used to seeing sex exploited for financial gain, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson writes.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 11
An image of two naked men in an autumnal Scandinavian wood was erased from Swedish underwear giant Björn Borg's Facebook page after being deemed 'pornographic'.
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Society: 4 Jan 11
A well heeled Stockholm businessman has been fined for buying sex from a known porn star in what he calls a "legal scandal."
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Education: 22 Nov 10
An internet video featuring naked Swedish high school students frolicking with farm animals and riding tractors on school property is no big deal, according to the school’s principal.
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National: 3 Nov 10
Sweden is bracing for the release on Thursday of a controversial book detailing the private life of King Carl XVI Gustaf, including an alleged affair with a member of the band Army of Lovers.
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Lifestyle: 13 May 10
What’s on in Sweden: Erotica in Stockholm, Badminton in Gothenburg and The Almighty Defenders in Malmö.
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Lifestyle: 4 Feb 10
The Year in Sweden - February: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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Society: 6 Dec 09
A collection of more than 4,000 vintage porn magazines will be sold at an auction in Karlstad in western Sweden on Sunday.
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National: 8 Oct 09
A man from Skellefteå in northern Sweden who lost his job as a personal care assistant because of a part-time internship at a local porn shop has accused his former employer of discrimination.
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Lifestyle: 24 Sep 09
A new diet has surfaced in Sweden recently, the Low-Carb High Fat diet (LCHF), but experts remain divided over the new method for trimming one’s waistline, The Local’s Caroline Gravel discovered.
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Business & Money: 18 Sep 09
"Earth Angel", the world's first 100% "green" dildo - made from recycled materials and battery-free - is now on sale in Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Sep 09
Film maker Mia Engberg explains the genesis of Dirty Diaries, a movie made up of 12 'feminist porn' shorts that has been generating heated debate across Sweden in the lead-up to its premiere this week.
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Society: 14 Apr 09
Jorma Toivonen's dream is to open a sex museum, but municipal councils have been lukewarm. In the meantime "Scandinavia's largest collection of erotic items" will be put on show in a Stockholm suburban garden.
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Lifestyle: 16 Oct 08
What’s on: Cullberg Ballet and Jay Brannan in Stockholm; Art Garfunkel and Wendy McNeill in Gothenburg; Simone Moreno and Cult of Luna in Malmö.
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Politics: 19 Jun 08
A local Moderate Party politician has resigned over the upcoming 'Ecce Homo' exhibition in Örnsköldsvik, northern Sweden.
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Society: 22 Apr 08
A short film collection shot on mobile phones by female directors seeking to create queer and feminist pornography is set to receive 350,000 kronor ($59,000) in Swedish cultural subsidies.
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National: 5 Apr 08
A sexual affair between a 40-year-old woman and a local celebrity has heated up a courtroom in southeastern Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Apr 08
A relationship with a dental technician is inherently erotic, writes columnist David Bartal, but it is hard to maintain when the love has gone.
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Society: 6 Mar 08
Sweden's state-run pharmacy chain Apoteket has announced that it is to begin selling sex toys in order to satisfy demand from customers.
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Lifestyle: 23 Nov 07
Looking for a way to while away the hours this weekend, or for something to do with visiting relatives? We've got some tips.
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Lifestyle: 2 Nov 07
Kathleen Harman was hoping that Fair Erotica would be a bit more, well, erotic. She decides in the end that the kind of sausages she wants can be better supplied at a new shop on Stockholm's Kungsholmen
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Society: 3 Oct 07
A man has been found not guilty of raping his eight-year-old son, despite his admitting having sex with him. The man claimed he thought he was having sex with his partner in an erotic dream.
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National: 10 Sep 07
The 53-year-old plastic surgeon at the centre of a high profile case has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for rape.
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Lifestyle: 11 Dec 06
She's a respectable local politician and Sweden's new 'first lady', but Filippa Reinfeldt - former flame of Eurodance king E-Type - is now being accused of starring in 'Christmas porn'.
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National: 13 Sep 06
Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt is to demand record compensation from the Expressen newspaper after it falsely stated that he had had alcohol poisoning and had checked himself in at a detox clinic.
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Lifestyle: 13 May 06
Sweden’s reputation as the first country of filth is one of those lingering stereotypes. Like high taxes. But whilst there’s no denying the latter, what truth really is there in the triple X typecast? The Local’s Christine Demsteader investigates.
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National: 1 Sep 05
A German IT company was awarded hundreds of thousands of kronor in subsidies when it set up in the county of Bjurholm - but that was before the council knew they were peddling online porn.
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Lifestyle: 4 Feb 05
Barely a month after opening, Gothenburg's World Culture Museum decides to remove a painting after receiving "hundreds of emails and letters" from Muslim groups concerned by its content.
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National: 14 Oct 04
The Bride of Christ contradicts the pastor, the experts contradict each other and the witnesses contradict what they said in the original trial. Who'd want to be a judge in the Knutby case?
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National: 7 Oct 04
So said both the pastor and the nanny this week - but that's about the only thing they agree on. The Knutby appeals trial continues in Stockholm with a litany of X-rated revelations.
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National: 4 Jun 04
Who said Sweden was liberal? Two books show that the stubborn stain of homophobia just won't be scrubbed away.
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National: 14 May 04
After weeks of leaks surely everything that could be said about Knutby has been said? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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