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Originally Posted by C Elegans Seriously, regarding gender roles you are stuck in the Dark Ages in North America compared to Scandinavia. Even populations who view themselves as very liberal (and probably correctly relative to the mainstream culture) are, with few exceptions, quite traditional compared to Scandinavia. This is most obvious in areas concerning how men and women relate to each other in sexual contact, and also with regard to sexual explicitness and the views on nudity. |
Yes, yes....I know. We are uncultured, uncivilised heathens over on this side of the pond. Indeed, all things considered, I fully expect bolts of Swedish meatballs to reign down from the sky, smiting us all for our sins.
I mean really, we should all bow down to Ikea, it's our only chance to achieve a modicum of civilisation! Ikea even gets us out of sleeping on animal skins on the cave floor and into beds. And let's not forget those comfortable chairs that allow us to sit back and enjoy Abba
Um *cough*
As a matter of fact, in general, I agree with you. Puritanism has left a significant impact on the continent.
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The Swedish study I was referring to is unfortunately not translated to English as far as I know. The reason for this is that this and many other studies concerning the behaviour of Swedish people, are conducted by various governmental departments in order to create information for politicians to use in decisions, rather than for scientific purposes. Thus, these studies are not published in any scientific journals, they are made public in the form of official reports but not in English. Like Americans, Swedes seems to love statistics, and there is a special governmental body for statistics about every aspect of the demographics and behaviour of the Swedish population. For sexual behaviour and attitudes, there is special department as well as there are departments for political attitudes, traffic behaviour, education and what have you.
Anyway, according to the latest Swedish investigations, more Swedish women than men watch porn movies. Furthermore, more Swedish women than men participate in sex-chatting on internet and more women than men have sex with people they meet on the internet. Both men and women prefer to have sex on the first date, and both men and women think the bed is the best place to have sex in, and that intercourse from behind is the position they like best. Good that people agree on this |
That is unfortunate, I was looking forward to a fresh perspective on an old debate. Given your own scrupulously high standards when it comes to supplying evidence for one's statements it's really too bad you are unable to furnish us with more details, but I do understand the impossibility in this particular situation.
Going by what you say, though. It does appear that the study is very Sweden specific. It would be interesting to make global comparisons, and in particular it might be interesting to look at market studies to examine patterns of porn consumption.