Virgin school

Yesterday I watched a documentary on TV about a Virgin School. I was chocked that such a thing exists, but when I heard it is located in Amsterdam I was not as surprised. When we visited Amsterdam in the spring, we did of course also visit the red light district and let me tell you, the people in Amsterdam defiantly has a very different approach to sex than we have, and they are WAY more liberal than we are.
Anyway, I tried to watch the documentary with an open mind, and yes, it is probably good that a man can learn to face his fears about sex and get a chance to loose his virginity if he wants. Yes, I guess it is good that the women doing it are warm women that make him feel comfortable. But I think most of the people watching the documentary did find it a bit repulsive and probably quite a few started thinking about incest and got very uncomfortable watching it.
I guess I am writing this post in order to try to sort out my own thoughts about the documentary, but it is really hard. I can’t say that I think it is all wrong, but I can’t say it is all ok either. But I don’t think this kind of school would actually work anywhere else besides in Amsterdam, and I don’t think the people in Holland think it is as strange as maybe people from other countries think. I am just going to make the conclusion that there are different cultures, different needs and we can all have our own opinions about it. But if you are not hurting anyone, and somebody feels helped, then that is his or her choice, isn’t it? But yes, I also felt a bit repulsed.
Did anybody else see the documentary?

The EU comission and "Love"

I read an interesting article in a newspaper today. The art institution at the EU comission is promoting European movies with "a soft porn commercial", as some people call it, and this video has already been seen by 1,3 million viewers.
This seems to be a very controversial subject. And in a way I can understand that some people get upset, although I don´t personally find the video that extreme, rather the opposite, I have to admit that I like the video. But howcome can EU not use sex for promoting themselves when a very big amount of the commercials seen in different medias, all over the world, are using very sexually oriented material?
Sex sells, that is a fact, a fact that has become even more evident with EU´s 44 second long video. I guess some people think that EU needs to be a bit more conservative considering that they are representing Europe, but why? Europe is already famous for being quite liberal, so why be a hypocrit and claim that we are something that we are not?
I salute Margot Wallström who had the courage to use this video to promote European Movies, and like we all know, no publicity is bad publicity ;)

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EU komissionen, Love