Home Study Abroad Sweden Sweden's most well-known artists are painters Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn, and Alexander Roslin, and the sculptors Tobias Sergel and Carl Milles. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Sweden was an international leader in what is now referred to as the "sexual revolution", with gender equality particularly promoted. Many Swedish films reflected a very liberal view of sexuality, including scenes of love making that caused international outrage, and introduced the concept of the "Swedish sin". However, Sweden was at that time not as sexually liberal as people believed, and even today while Swedes typically have a rather nonchalant attitude about sex, Swedes are generally no more sexually active than people of many other countries. Sweden has also become in recent decades very liberal regarding homosexuality, as is reflected in the popular acceptance of films such as Fucking Åmål, and the popular writer Jonas Gardell, among others. In Sweden many gay and lesbian celebrities live openly without causing a stir.
( Traditional Swedish houses in the rural countryside, painted in the traditional Swedish Falu red ) | |
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