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VistDenmark YouTube video removed after complaints

VisitDenmark has removed a controversial advert from YouTube. The tourism agency received complaints that the video was promoting promiscuity.

The advert, which was intended to encourage people to holiday in Denmark, featured a young mother trying to find her baby's father. The Daily Telegraph explains that many people did not interpret the clip in the way VisitDenmark intended.

More than 800,000 people had seen the clip on YouTube before it was removed. In the video, the woman says: "We met one night last year when you were on vacation here in Denmark...we decided to go down to the water to have a drink and yeah, it's really embarrassing, but it's more or less what I remember." She hopes that the father of her baby, August, will see the video and recognise her.

VisitDenmark insists that the advert was meant to tell "a nice and sweet story about a grown-up woman who lives in a free society and accepts the consequences of her actions." However, sociologist Karen Sjoerup argues that the video suggests that "you can lure fast, blonde Danish women home," and Denmark's economy tourism minister added that it portrayed a "not very well thought out picture of the country".

Although the video has now been removed from YouTube, it can still be seen online. Users of the site copied the clip and posted it elsewhere, while parodies have also appeared on the Internet.

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