‘Visit Denmark’ video pulled for promoting promiscuity

A video promoting tourism in Denmark has been removed from YouTube after complaints it promoted promiscuity. The three minute clip shows a young blonde woman, trying to find a man whom she had a one night stand with, who fathered her child “August”.

In the advert, the woman said, “We met one night a year and a half ago when you were on vacation here in Denmark. We met..and then decided to have a drink and, yeah, it’s really embarrassing but it’s more or less what I remember. I don’t remember where you’re from or even your name.”

Critics said the video implied that along with traditional tourism, Denmark was a place to go to have unprotected sex with strangers, with one Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, labelling it “grotesque” and a “waste of tax payers money”. The video also prompted a slew of angry comments, with one user saying it was a “tasteless, tactless way of attracting attention.”

But, VisitDenmark’s manager, Dorte Kiilerich said she regretted any offence the video may have caused, but the intent had been to tell “a nice and sweet story about a grown-up woman who accepts the consequences of her actions”. The YouTube clip received more than 8,00,000 hits and its copies have been spreading across YouTube.