1964-1969: Denmark
The phenomenon grows. Inspired by the voices of the ancient Gods and Goddesses of Sex who spurred him to keep going and gave him the directions, stimulated by the bet he had made with his college buddies, and applying his extensive knowledge of laws and habits of every European state, Lasse Braun realizes that legalization could only be possible by starting in a small nation of advanced culture, where repressive religions had little or no weight. Denmark was his first choice for a favorable battleground. He travels to Copenhagen. A local attorney, supporting Braun's revolutionary endeavor, puts him in touch with a young Danish Member of Parliament--call him Rasmussen--operating within the ranks of the Social-Democratic Party.
Rasmussen manages to get a reliable Danish translation of Braun's dissertation on censorship, and discusses with him the "social damage" provoked by the criminalization of explicit sexual material. Namely, the increase of violence, neurosis, somatic diseases, family quarrels and generalized unhappiness. Among such people as the open-minded Danes, it appeared quite clear that censorship on sex was the unpleasant legacy of the repression perpetrated by the totalitarian regimes of Europe, which seized power, with the support of the Christian clergy, after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815.
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