Danish tourism ad with "blond woman cradling a dark-skinned infant" pulled

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Danish tourism ad pulled from Web for promiscuity
By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

(09-15) 08:51 PDT COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) --

Denmark's tourism agency has removed an advertisement from YouTube after complaints that it promoted promiscuity in the liberal Scandinavian country.

The video clip, nearly 3 minutes long, shows a young, blond woman cradling a dark-skinned infant called "August" and saying he is the result of a brief fling with a foreign tourist.

Speaking English in the video, she says she is "trying to find August's father" through Google's YouTube site. Danish TV2 has clarified that the scene was staged and the woman is an actress.

Since being posted Thursday by VisitDenmark, the ad received more than 800,000 hits on YouTube. VisitDenmark removed the clip Monday, but it can be still viewed as it has been copied and posted elsewhere on the Internet.

Sociologist Karen Sjoerup said the ad suggested "you can lure fast, blonde Danish women home without a condom."


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