A tourism promotion video from Denmark was removed from YouTube after complaints of promiscuous elements.
The three-minute long video shows a blond, blue-eyed Danish woman, Karen, looking for her baby's father, a tourist to Denmark whom she had a one-night stand with 18 months ago.
"I am doing this video because I want to find August's father...I don't remember where you are from or even your name...we went back to my place and ended up having sex." the single mother told the story of their encounter in the video.
When the video was initially uploaded, many viewers thought it was authentic and described Karen as a young and responsible mother. The number of viewer increased to a million in four days.
However, it was later revealed that the video was, in fact, a product of the official tourism Web site of Denmark, VisitDenmark.com. After the video was showered with complaints, YouTube decided to to remove the clip.
The ad has created huge reactions in this small, liberal Scandinavian country. One reader commented on The Copenhagen Post and angrily suggested a slogan for the ad: "Visit Denmark, land of sluts".
Maja Christensen, a Danish exchange student at Washington State University, also talked about this incident on her radio show, Europe On Vocation, today.
"It was terrible." Christensen said, "And the government is paying."
VisitDenmark's manager, Dorte Kiilerich told TV2 News in Denmark that the video was the "most effective thing we have ever done to market Denmark". She argues that it is just a good, sweet and really harmless story about a grown-up woman who lives in a free society and accepts the consequences of her action.
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