Denmark: Pornography: What Is Permitted Is Boring

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Export Trade. Most Danes seemingly agree—and accepted his legal proposal to abolish all restrictions. Now pornography is no longer an issue in Denmark: leaders of the Danish Lutheran Church have not bothered to take a stand on the Thestrup bill, newspapers do not dwell on it in detail, and a majority of parliamentary parties have given it their backing. Newsstands in tourist areas are still festooned with pictures of every pose imaginable. But this export market does not impress Denmark's most active pornographer, Leo Madsen, who publishes the mass-circulation Weekend Sex magazine. Says he ruefully: "Business is not going to be good."

* A 48-member international agreement that seeks to prevent the circulation and trade of obscene publications.

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