Come to Denmark, have an illegitimate child

Posted By Joshua Keating Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 1:34 PM Share

This could very well be the worst tourist advertisement ever produced. In what looks like a home-made YouTube video, a young Danish woman appeals to the father of "August," a newborn baby conceived in a one-night-stand with a foreign tourist. The woman is actually an actress and the video was produced by the Danish tourist board, which has since removed it from their site after complaints that they were depicting Danes as promiscuous.

Believe me, I get what they're trying to sell, and they're hardly the first country to use the promise of vacation sex (admiittedly it's usely slightly more subtle) as a selling point. But did anyone really think this painfully awkward 2 1/2 minute monologue would be enticing to anyone? Then again, this is the country that produced Lars Von Trier, so you never know.

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DAVID ACAI

10:55 PM ET

September 16, 2009

Very Compelling Reason to go to Denmark

This was quite entertaining. I wish I would have seen advertisements like this back when I was single. I would be a world traveler for sure.

 

AJLONGINI

12:17 AM ET

September 17, 2009

haha, great title

This is sad; I couldn't even watch the whole thing. I think it's important to note that that it video was posted on YouTube as a covert ad campaign to fool people into thinking she actually is the mother of that child, which it did.

 

RYANTA

8:30 AM ET

September 20, 2009

Video removed

It seems that the video has now been removed from Youtube. I think this was a bad publicity idea and am glad that they have backed out of it. Being single is fun, but traveling to a country for vacation sex ... don't know about that. Dating is not that hard in US.

 

JAMESY

11:21 AM ET

September 24, 2009

This really is a sad

This really is a sad advertisement to make. Do they not have better things to offer from their country. I realize a lot of countries use the promise of vacation sex as a selling point, but I'd never thought Denmark would be one of them!

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