NORWAY, LAND OF CHLAMYDIA

In Norway, the 7-Eleven chain has started advertising condoms with a poster that shows a young Norwegian couple dressed in the traditional oompah costumes in front of a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and fjords. The copy reads: “Welcome to Norway! The Land of Chlamydia.” The ads have been plastered at Oslo Central train station, making it likely to be one of the first sights to greet tourists upon arrival in the Scandinavian country. Tore Holte Follestad, assistant manager with a Nordic sexual health organization, praised the provocative ad, saying the poster conveys an important message in a nonjudgmental way. The claim of the prevalence of chlamydia in Norway made by the campaign is also an accurate one, he says: “In 2016, over 26,000 cases of chlamydia were diagnosed in Norway and Norwegians are not good at using condoms.”
* Because they don’t use them or because they put them on wrong?
* The young couple in the poster? If you go to Norway, do NOT have sex with them.
* I hear it’s easy to catch chlamydia in the back of fjord.
* Norway has all the big veneral diseases… chlamydia, gonnorhea, lutefisk, herpes…
* 26,000 cases in a population of 5.3 million? Why, that’s almost one-half of one percent! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
* Coincidentally, “Norway! The Land of Chlamydia!” is also the new tourism slogan of Sweden.