July 7th, 2009 · Comments Off

Jonathan Power in Prospect Magazine, In search of the Swedish soul:
“An examination of the Swedish soul must begin, I’m afraid, with sex. Not Volvo, not IKEA, not Alfa Laval nor H&M. Not Strindberg nor Dagerman nor even Astrid Lindgren and Pippi Longstocking. Not the welfare state, not income equality nor criminal justice. Not the Lutheran Church nor collective bargaining. Not the Vikings nor 200 years without war. It’s that three letter word—and the half-myth about Swedish promiscuity—that is our starting point.”
Tags: sex,sweden
October 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

Extreem rechtse vandalen vernielen The History of Sex. (sic)
New York Times:
“A grainy video of four masked vandals running through an art gallery in Sweden, smashing sexually explicit photographs with crowbars and axes to the strain of thundering death-metal music, was posted on YouTube Friday night.”
Het tinnef in actie op YouTube: Nationalists Action Against Degenerate “Art”
Tags: andres serrano,art,lund,photography,sexuality,sweden,terrorism,vandalism,video