Swedish politician calls for more porn on TV to boost birthrate

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Ned
Oerdin, Didn't Augustus do something similar to boost the Roman birthrate? He promoted marriage and family values - a marked contrast with what we see in Sweden.

He taxed bachelors.

[Inverse Icarus]

what they have to do is nationalize women as a commodity and equally distribute them to all the male workers of the country.

that would work.

[leftover_crack]

Yes. Rise up workers! Demand Socialized women! Women are to good and sexy to not be ****ed!

(unless your gay then you hate them)

[Lung]

Pardon the vulgarity, but pulling out for the gravy shot is hardly likely to increase pregnancy rates

[Inverse Icarus]

sorry if i dont understand the vulgarity of "gravy shot". is that an aussie thing?

[Kepler]

"gravey shot" = "money shot" i.e, come shot?

[Rasbelin]

IMHO: leftover_crack = yet another troll or DL

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Kepler
"gravey shot" = "money shot" i.e, come shot?

that would make sense. i'll be assuming that until corrected.

[Rasbelin]

Anyway, on-topic ( jeez! on-topic! )...

interesting idea to use porn for a higher birthrate. I agree with Oerdin's original comment and add that I don't get the clue how porn would increase pregnancies in a such large scale the politician seems to expect. Doh, just some rumblings.

[Dinner]

People are agreeing with me?

There is another good question which Time Magazine asks in its most recent issue. The American birth rate has been increasing steadly since it hit an all time low in the late 1970's while Europe's has continued, more or less, downward. Why the reason for this divergence?

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Kepler
"gravey shot" = "money shot" i.e, come shot?

Now that's something you don't want to think about the next time you have pasta with a cream sauce.

[Shi Huangdi]

Wow, the Swedes seem to be going out of their way to confirm out stereotypes about them.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Oerdin
There is another good question which Time Magazine asks in its most recent issue. The American birth rate has been increasing steadly since it hit an all time low in the late 1970's while Europe's has continued, more or less, downward. Why the reason for this divergence?

My guess would be that the US has more religions that allow and cause larger families and thus higher birthrates. The Mormons are a marginal group, but the Mexicans and Catholics (or even more, Catholic Mexicans) are another story. Europe, on the other hand, is mostly Protestant, excluding Italy, Spanish, Portugal and other possible smaller countries, and I think Catholism isn't practiced that fanatically as it is in the States.

[Rasbelin]

Kassi,

all religions seem to get a certain radical flavour in the wonderland of USA.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola


He taxed bachelors.

He also disenfranchised them, IIRC.