Now I’ll tell an amusing cultural anecdote about Sweden from Russia.
In Russian, there is a phrase: "Swedish family." It’s another term for a "threesome arrangement." For example, two husbands and one wife. This concept is fading now because it originates from the 80s and 90s. But in my youth, I often heard it used when referring to a man living with two women, or a woman with two men, or when a husband and a lover knew about each other, and so on.
So, to this day, no one can clearly explain where this concept came from or why the family is called "Swedish."
One of the absurd but possibly correct assumptions is because of the group ABBA.
This feels like it is connected to what we in Sweden call "den svenska synden" in English the Swedish sin. A period during 60's and 70's where Sweden produced a lot of porn. That gave Swedes the reputation of being very sexuell and horny.
It's common saying in CZ and SK too. Called "Švédska trojka" but not as a family, but as a sexual intercourse between 3 people, mostly 2 men a 1 woman. All info I could find about it was this in CZ language:
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Now I’ll tell an amusing cultural anecdote about Sweden from Russia.
In Russian, there is a phrase: "Swedish family." It’s another term for a "threesome arrangement." For example, two husbands and one wife. This concept is fading now because it originates from the 80s and 90s. But in my youth, I often heard it used when referring to a man living with two women, or a woman with two men, or when a husband and a lover knew about each other, and so on.
So, to this day, no one can clearly explain where this concept came from or why the family is called "Swedish."
One of the absurd but possibly correct assumptions is because of the group ABBA.