"Swedish family": what is it in the modern world and why has the term become a symbol of debauchery?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Somewhere hearing the phrase "Swedish family", there are rarely associations with traditional parents and a pair of blond children. Most often, such a term is used as a description of several (usually three, but always more than two) sexual partners living under the same roof. So, what is the "Swedish family" really and where did the name come from?

Main version

The emancipation of the Swedes is known in many countries and mainly due to the fact that since 1955 compulsory sexual education has been introduced in their schools. Nowhere else in the world did this even occur when the inhabitants of northern Europe decided to teach their children the wisdom of carnal pleasures. Of course, if you really look at the modern Swedish family, you will never say that it can evoke such associations.

In Sweden, families traditionally consist of two parents and children of different sexes, and such comparisons even annoy many people or at least make them blush.

Guesses

In fact, the concept of "Swedish family" (what does it meanknown to almost everyone) has many options for the appearance. Among the guesses of ordinary people, the version with the attribution of lovers to the family is most often found, because often women who are dissatisfied with the financial situation of their official husband resort to the financial assistance of another man. A similar situation can develop on the other hand, when a we althy man is able to support several women and, in general, uses this.

Most often, such situations arise among celebrities and legal spouses are often aware of the love affairs of their “believers”.

Real option

In fact, the Swedish family cannot be described as an unconventional or overly liberated unit of society. The reason for the appearance in the life of one of the spouses of a new partner is the banal lack of money for the legal dissolution of the marriage. The fact is that in Sweden this process is very expensive and most citizens simply do not marry or, if necessary, leave, remain married to one partner, and in fact cohabit with another.

In such situations, it is important for both parents to respect the rights of the child, so children are not divided there, as is customary with us, for example. The child lives alternately with each parent and all of them are obliged to communicate well so as not to injure him. That is, a divorced Swedish family (what it really is now clear) is forced to play the role of full-fledged parents and communicate well with the neweach spouse's family. For many citizens, this is at least strange, which reinforces the rumors that the Swedes are not traditional.

First Representatives

The expression "Swedish family" originates from the 70s, when the youth of this particular country began to oppose traditional families, and openly cohabit with several sexual partners. Interestingly, by that time such “triangles” were not an innovation, and the first officially registered case of such cohabitation occurred in Spain at the end of the 18th century.

At that time, this case was simply outrageous, because in a Catholic conservative country such behavior was unacceptable and all participants in the "triangle" could be executed if they were not the ruling dynasty. Yes, yes, the king and queen took the young guardsman into their arms, who later was awarded a bunch of titles. One of them was even invented especially for him - the Prince of the World. Apparently, the prince had enough strength and imagination to please both spouses with his presence for such a long time.

Of course, the guardsman was not seen in direct contact with the king, but the ruler himself spoke of him very tenderly and affectionately.

The appearance of the term in Russia

For the first time the concept of "Swedish family" in Russia was mentioned back in the 70s of the last century. It was then that foreign artists, films and magazines began to make their way into the expanses of the USSR closed from the outside world. Just at that time in Sweden itself, the so-called communes, consisting ofseveral sexual partners of representatives of the "leftist" youth. At the same time, in the vastness of the Soviet state, free-form magazines and films became widespread, which reinforced the myth of the sexual emancipation of the Swedes and the ubiquity of such non-traditional families in Europe.

The artists of the ABBA group, popular at that time, who, in their understanding, were also representatives of the "Swedish family" were able to strengthen the association at that time. Everyone already knew what it was, because they sang beautiful love songs and consisted of two loving married couples. Yes, everything is true, only these couples still changed partners once, so it’s impossible to call them true conservatives.

Conclusion

Today, almost everyone knows the answer to the question of what a “Swedish family” is, only this information is based on stereotypes and associations of past years. Now the bulk of the inhabitants of this European country is no different from their conservative neighbors, and such communes are found in isolated cases. By the way, today you can meet them in almost every country.

The very concept of a "Swedish family" is a symbol of permissiveness, not only in our country. In almost every state there is a certain expression that means inappropriate behavior with a reference to Sweden. So in the UK, the cohabitation of several sexual partners (necessarily more than two) is called the "Swedish sin", and such a family is perceived as a symbol of debauchery.