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Want to Know What ‘Sexually Free’ Actually Looks Like? Look No Farther Than Sweden

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&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;92 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad15875 " id&equals;"quads-ad15875" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"0">&NewLine;<amp-ad &NewLine; width&equals;"100vw" &NewLine; height&equals;"320" &NewLine; type&equals;"adsense" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4964358903113472" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"7296948979" &NewLine; data-auto-format&equals;"rspv" &NewLine; data-full-width &NewLine; > &NewLine; <div overflow><&sol;div> &NewLine; <&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">As an American living abroad&comma; European attitudes towards sex&comma; nudity&comma; and porn have always shocked me&period; Seemingly in stark contrast not only to American habits&comma; but also ideals&comma; the European sex life was something that was often put on a pedestal as ground-breaking&comma; but when in actuality&comma; bodies are just… incredibly normal&period; Tuning into British television for the first time&comma; I was absolutely shocked to see as much full-frontal nudity &lpar;of both female <i>and <&sol;i>male&rpar; as I did&period; One&comma; because these things are strictly taboo on American television outside of HBO— and two&comma; because I swore that America had a really healthy&comma; open&comma; and free ideals concerning sexuality and body normalcy&period; Boy&comma; was I wrong&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">More than just on tv&comma; sex scenes in movies and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;porndoe&period;com&sol;category&sol;53&sol;swedish-porn"><span class&equals;"s1">Swedish porn<&sol;span><&sol;a> completely rocked my world&period; With each genre reaching a bit deeper into a very casual complacency when vividly describing fetishes&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;underage” sex &lpar;age of consent is much different in Europe&rpar;&comma; and just the deed in general&period; However&comma; looking at it all a bit more closely&comma; I discovered that Europe at large&comma; and the Swedes in particular&comma; might be onto something&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"p4">Swedish Porn is Fantastic<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">Look&comma; it doesn’t matter where you’re from&comma; Swedish porn will almost undoubtedly appeal to one &lpar;if not all&rpar; of your dirty little secrets&period; Perhaps the greatest thing about the genre is that&comma; outside of speaking Swedish&comma; there isn’t really a common theme amongst most Swedish porn flicks&period; Tropes get boring&comma; as any mainstream porn fan will quickly tell you&period; While Swedish porn still caters to particular tastes— like lesbian&comma; BBW&comma; and fetish— but they seem to leave the awkward segues&comma; annoying gender stereotypes&comma; and wooden scripts behind&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;92 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad14936 " id&equals;"quads-ad14936" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"0">&NewLine;<amp-ad &NewLine; width&equals;"100vw" &NewLine; height&equals;"320" &NewLine; type&equals;"adsense" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"pub-4964358903113472" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"3932419033" &NewLine; data-auto-format&equals;"rspv" &NewLine; data-full-width &NewLine; > &NewLine; <div overflow><&sol;div> &NewLine; <&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">Which isn’t a particularly new theme in Swedish cinema&comma; as early as the 1950s the country was churning out fun and fancy-free flicks that involved rampant nudity and pre-marital sex&comma; much to the charging of Westerners&period; However&comma; as our tastes evolved&comma; so did Swedish pornography&comma; only they had a bit of a head start&period; Long promoting more personal freedoms in sexual expression&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p5">Which could be because the country itself is pretty sexually liberated&period; With many fetishes that are villainized elsewhere&comma; being perfectly acceptable up north&period; Not to mention the fact that the Swedish government pays close attention to the sexual health&comma; satisfaction&comma; and habits of their constituents&comma; doling out a national survey to check in on everyone and see how it’s all going&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"p4">Thriving&comma; Not Surviving<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">According the most recent Swedish sex survey&comma; a report extended by the Swedish Public Health Agency&comma; even in today’s rocky social climate&comma; most Swede’s report a high satisfaction with their sex lives&period; With a huge majority of those surveyed saying that they believed that sex was an important part of their daily lives&period; In fact&comma; a third of the population says that they have sex &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;several times a week”&comma; which blows most Westerners out of the water&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;92 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad14936 " id&equals;"quads-ad14936" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"0">&NewLine;<amp-ad &NewLine; width&equals;"100vw" &NewLine; height&equals;"320" &NewLine; type&equals;"adsense" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"pub-4964358903113472" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"3932419033" &NewLine; data-auto-format&equals;"rspv" &NewLine; data-full-width &NewLine; > &NewLine; <div overflow><&sol;div> &NewLine; <&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p5">Both men and women report high levels of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;eroticatale&period;com&sol;fetish-sex-stories&sol;how-porn-channels-gave-me-sexual-satisfaction&sol;"><span class&equals;"s2">sexual satisfaction<&sol;span><&sol;a>&comma; particularly those within the 30 &&num;8211&semi; mid-forties age range&period; Where younger men and older women are the ones that suggest there’s still some fringe frustrations to be felt&period; Which is fairly well aligned to sentiments in other parts of the world&period; A stark difference can be found in who wields the power in the bedroom&comma; however&period; Where it’s common in many countries for the women to be the decision makers when it comes to where and when&comma; most Swedes report that having sex seems to be more of a collaborative affair&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"p4">Scandinavian Roles and Preferences May Play a Part<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">However&comma; when it comes to the pornography they happily produce&comma; and the rest of the world rabidly consumes&comma; Swedes fall out of sync with the rest&period; Roughly 72&percnt; of men surveyed say they watch porn&comma; where 68&percnt; of women report <i>never <&sol;i>watching it&comma; which appears to be in stark contrast to what could be expected from these demographics in the US and UK&period; Which comes as a bit of a surprise when considering the country’s long history with scintillating film&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">A 2018 study of American porn <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;journals&period;sagepub&period;com&sol;doi&sol;abs&sol;10&period;1177&sol;0743558407306348"><span class&equals;"s1">consumption habits<&sol;span><&sol;a> showed that 91&percnt; of men and 60&percnt; of women in America consume pornography on the regular&comma; which well surpasses that of the Scandinavian demographics&period; Where in the UK&comma; a mere 76&percnt; of males&comma; and 36&percnt; of females admitting to consuming pornography&period; Which could give a reasonable explanation for why <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;independent&period;co&period;uk&sol;life-style&sol;health-and-families&sol;women-sex-lives-how-good-satisfied-british-public-health-england-a8417126&period;html"><span class&equals;"s1">nearly half<&sol;span><&sol;a> of British women say they’re sexually dissatisfied&period; So&comma; while the Swedes tend to use less pornography&comma; despite producing it&comma; they do seem far more sexually satisfied than the countries that consume more&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;92 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad14936 " id&equals;"quads-ad14936" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"0">&NewLine;<amp-ad &NewLine; width&equals;"100vw" &NewLine; height&equals;"320" &NewLine; type&equals;"adsense" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"pub-4964358903113472" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"3932419033" &NewLine; data-auto-format&equals;"rspv" &NewLine; data-full-width &NewLine; > &NewLine; <div overflow><&sol;div> &NewLine; <&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">So&comma; what does it all mean&quest; Well&comma; that’s still up for grabs&comma; but maybe Brits should start watching Swedish porn and Americans should simply start practicing it&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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