DESPERATE TIMES/DESPERATE MEASURES :

Porn appeal shocks Swedish conservatives (BBC, 6 September, 2002)

A candidate in Sweden's general election has called for pornography to be broadcast on television every Saturday to encourage people to have more sex.

Teres Kirpikli says she wants to help boost the Swedish economy by encouraging people to have more children.

Sweden has a negative natural growth rate, with more deaths than births now registered every year.

Though it may prove necessary, this is the least of the steps that nations like Sweden will have to take if they are to save themselves. A more appropriate start might be to ban abortion and use the tax structure to impose penalties for childlessness. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 7, 2002 7:12 AM