“We recognise the significance of a bruise,” said Sofie Münster, a nationally recognised expert in “Nordic Parenting.” “Danish parenting generally favours exposing children rather than shielding them.” Many Danes believe children should not be shielded from the realities of life, giving them a lot of unsupervised time to play and explore, even if they might hurt themselves. Photograph: Betina Garcia/The New York Times The host of “Ultra Strips Down” is Jannik Schow (left). “But this has nothing to do with sex it’s about seeing the body as natural, the way kids do.” “Perhaps some people are like, ‘Oh, my God, they are combining nakedness and kids,’” Schow said. The adults are not actors but volunteers. Schow (29), who helped develop the concept of the show after a producer came up with the idea, said the point was also to counter the daily bombardment of young people with images of perfect – unrealistic – bodies. “They have to learn it at the right time,” he added, saying this information should be presented by parents or schools “so that it is not delivered in this vulgar way, as the children’s channel does”.įor the most part, though, Danes have long been comfortable with nudity – at public beaches, for instance. At that age, he said, they “already have many things running around in their heads”. “It is far too early for children” to start with male and female genitalia, he told BT, a Danish tabloid. Recently, however, a leading member of the right-wing Danish People’s Party, Peter Skaarup, said he found Ultra Strips Down to be “depraving our children.”
The programme is now in its second season, and while perhaps a shock to non-Danes, it is highly popular in Denmark. With serious looks on their faces, the children nodded.
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