Fuck For The Future!

[elfs]

Roughly translated from the Swedish:

Sex is no pleasure. It's business. And today it's bad business here in the Western World. There aren't enough babies being born. So, who will take care of us when we are old? Who will work and pay for your pensions? Please. Don't just make love. Make babies. Or let's put it like this: drop your pants or drop dead.

Comments

[mouser.livejournal.com]

If they really felt like that, they'd adopt from other countries.

[areitu.livejournal.com]

A cold Scandanavian take on what most consider a warm and sensual experience!

Maybe the issue is in the language. In a letter to an American blogger (http://letterstomarcjacobs.blogspot.com/2006/10/pardon-my-language.html) from a Swede, asking us to pardon their language. Apparently the Swedish translation for "areola" is "wart yard" among other things.

[grum]

But then the next generation might not share their values. Because everyone knows that begetting ones own is the only reliable way of making sure ones children vote the way one wants them to.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Well, the Swedes do have the problem of a shrinking population. It's a common problem with industrialized countries that have moved past that important triple-point where high birth rates are no longer necessary to combat high infant mortality rates, and large families translate into "enormous costs for real estate and education" instead of "cheap farm labour".

Most countries that have this problem though, just start importing citizens from more populous and less developed countries. Sweden though, is reportedly more whitebread than white bread, although I only have hearsay to go by on that.

[bolindbergh]

1. Not any longer.

2. That would be Finland.