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Well, Sweden is not Norway, but there was also this. Even for Sweden, advertising is one thing, being topless on the beach another -- the latter practice was AFAIK pioneered on the Mediterranean by Swedish tourists in the sixties.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 06:17:53 AM EST
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Wikipedia: Fuck for Forest
Fuck for forest, or FFF, is an environmental organisation founded in Norway by Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen, which raises money for rescuing the world's rainforests by producing pornographic material or having sex in public. In their first six months of existence the group received seed funding from the government of Norway.

The group gained notoriety when two of its members had intercourse on stage during a Quart Festival concert featuring Norwegian singer Kristopher Schau and his band, The Cumshots, after delivering a brief talk on the impact humans have on natural forests. Fleeing from the legal troubles that stemmed from the act (including a fine imposed on the group after its male member dropped his pants in a Kristiansand, Norway courtroom) the organisation moved its headquarters to Berlin, Germany.


The author must have had tremendous fun writing about Norwegian seed funding.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 07:08:06 AM EST
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Well, the sixties aren't now, and Scandinavia is more prudish than it used to be, from what I hear.

Fortunately, it's so far just about what goes on in the public sphere. There's reasonably general acceptance of the principle that what goes on privately between consenting adults isn't anybody else's business.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 07:43:37 AM EST
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