- Title: DENMARK: SEX FAIR OPENS IN COPENHAGEN.
- Date: 22nd October 1969
- Summary: EXHIBITION HALL; CARS AND POSTERS OUTSIDE; POLICE ON DUTY; PREPARATIONS TO STANDS IN HALL; VARIOUS DISPLAYS. Initials GL/VS/DW/PS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 6th November 1969 13:00
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- Location: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
- Country: Denmark
- Reuters ID: LVA3RKDA5KL8AOZ21MH3WTSE6N2
- Story Text: IN COPENHAGEN A SIX-DAY SEX FAIR OPENED YESTERDAY (21 OCT) TO LARGE CROWD OF PREDOMINENTLY MIDDLE-AGED PEOPLE, MANY FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES. THE EXHIBITION, DISPLAYING THE BOOKS, MAGAZINES, FILMS AND OTHER ARTEFACTS OF DENMARK'S NOW LEGA PORNOGRAPHY INDUSTRY, IS EXPECTED TO BOOST AN ALREADY THRIVING EXPORT TRADE.
DANISH EXPORTS OF PORNOGRAPHYARE ESTIMATED TO BE WORTH ABOUT 2.7 MILLION STERLING (ABOUT 6.5 MILLION DOLLARS) A YEAR, AND PRODUCERS SAY THE LEADING MARKETS ARE THE UNITED STATES, WEST GERMANY AND BRITAIN IN THAT ORDER.
LEGAL RESTRICTIONS ON PORNOGRAPHY HAVE BEEN PROGRESSIVELY LIFTED SINCE 1967, AFTER A JURISTS' COMMISSION REPORTED THAT THE LAWS WERE OBSOLETE AND PSYCHIATRISTS ADVISED THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE IT WAS HARMFUL. THE ONLY RESTRICTIONS NOW ARE THAT IT MAY NOT BE SOLD TO PERSON UNDER 17, OR DISPLAYED WHERE IT MAY CAUSE OFFENCE.
THIS YEAR DENMARK WITHDREW FROM THE GENEVA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION WHICH PROHIBITS INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC IN PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS, BUT EXPORTS TO OTHER COUNTRIES ARE GENERALLY IN DEFIANCE OF THOSE COUNTRIES' OWN LAWS.
ABOUT 55 PRODUCERS ARE DISPLAYING THEIR WARES AT THE EXHIBITION, WHICH IS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER TRADE FAIR EXCEPT THE OVER-THE-COUNTER SALES ARE NOT ALLOWED. ORGANISER OTTO TJERRILD SAID IT WAS "FOR ALL THOSE WHO TAKE PLEASURE IN SEX, AND ALL THOSE WHO LIKE TO BE OUTRAGED.".
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