A clarification and clarification from Blue Vision

You who are reading this have most certainly heard the radio program "Porrbiografen" in P1 or read / heard about the program in social media. Below we give our version of this, it is incredibly far from the version presented in P1.

The first thing we want to point out is that we naturally take both abuse and prostitution seriously and that we are constantly working to improve and offer the safest possible place for our guests. We are not saying that such things do not happen with us, because it happens everywhere, but we say that we do everything in our power to prevent and counteract that it happens at Blue Vision.

And so to the radio program itself. We were approached by an unknown woman who introduced herself as Maria Sveland and said she was a journalist. She said she had walked past Blue Vision and was curious about that kind of place and phenomenon and wondered if we would be willing to do an interview. As we are quite proud of our company, our staff and our activities, we naturally agreed, in the belief that she was interested in reflecting the business from a curious and objective perspective. We soon realized this was not the case when we looked up who Maria Sveland was, but we chose to take the interview anyway. After all, we hoped that she would do the interview she had made it seem like before and most of our answers in the program were made in a situation where we hoped that her intention was positive. Unfortunately, that was not the case and she mostly wanted to throw us off balance it seems. Afterwards, we also offered her several times to speak to one of the people who often work evenings and weekends and have more insight into the daily operations, but she never took that opportunity. For those of you wondering what made us think that the angle was already clear from the start, we advise you to google Maria Sveland yourself to get an idea of her already decided position on certain issues.

This may have been the most one-sided interview we have ever had, Maria Sveland only wanted to talk about the young women who, according to her, were being harmed by us. She was totally uninterested in anything else; in how Blue Vision is the only place for many to be themselves, in how many come to us and feel good, in everything we do to create as safe a place as possible, in everything that is our actual business. The focus was only on abuse and prostitution, contrary to what she wanted us to believe before.

The program also featured some women talking about their experiences. We are not saying that it has not happened or that it is not terrible, we do not mean to minimize the women's suffering and what has happened, but some things in their stories were very twisted or did not match our premises or the like. Abuse and the purchase of sex can certainly have happened here as well as everywhere else in society, but we really work constantly against such things. We had intended to respond to all stories from the beginning, but we don't want to point fingers or pick fights with specific people because that's not the important thing in all this, the important thing is that everyone works together towards a safer world.

So to show the difference in what the program paints and how it happens with us and precisely that we work FOR everyone's safety, we take out an example that clearly shows that we are constantly trying to counteract these problems: A woman at the checkout is said to have denied "Johanna" entry when she came there with a man, questioned what she was doing there and asked "whether she should falsely report this man too?". The person at the checkout also allegedly took her picture and then gated her. Our response: "Johanna" had been with us a few days earlier with a man, after which she had wanted to report him for rape. When she came back a few days later with a new man, we obviously made the assessment that it was inappropriate for her to risk exposing herself to the same situation again, which is why we did not think it was appropriate to let her in again. We would never let someone in with us when we feel that the person does not seem stable or we are unsure whether the person is there with the "right" intentions, which we judged that she was not when she returned to the same premises a few days after she said she had been raped there. No picture was taken, nor would we need to do so as there is camera surveillance around the entire checkout line.

It also feels somewhere that Maria Sveland in many of the stories puts together different facts that do not belong together and would like to shed light on Blue Vision with the conclusion that we are the root of evil, instead of directing the light to the perpetrators and see what we actually do to counteract as far as possible the very things that the stories depict. Surely one way would be to try to help us get better if what we are doing is so wrong? It feels like this could be a problem that arises when Maria Sveland perhaps confuses the roles of journalist and activist.

Blue Vision is 95% a place for bisexual and gay men. In addition, we have some transgender people and some couples. Most of the couples usually come on park nights, but there are also couples who come on other days of course. There are also some single women who come to us, and sometimes two or more women come together. We always try to be as careful as possible when women come to us to inform them how Blue Vision works, how the environment can be experienced, that we are always there if something feels wrong, that you can come to the checkout whether you just want a break or if you want to point out a problem or if you feel unsafe, that we are there to increase safety. Blue Vision should be and is a place where you should not be ashamed of your sexuality. Many of our guests have an immigrant background, where homosexuality or being transgender is taboo in their cultures. With us, everyone can be themselves.

As it seems that Maria Sveland is very focused on young women having sex with multiple men, we just want to briefly clarify a few things below:
Is there sex with a woman and multiple men on Blue Vision? Yes, it does.
Who are these women? It's very different, but without mentioning names, it's everything from famous artists, parliamentary politicians to senior municipal managers, but of course most are ordinary women. We would estimate the average age of these women to be 35-40 years.
Would we allow a woman who was too drunk or otherwise drugged to enter our premises? No, we would not.
Do we ask each individual woman what her motivation is for wanting to have sex with several men? No, we do not, nor do we ask men why they want to have sex with other men, why transgender people want to show their true selves with us or men who have chosen to dress as women why they have made this choice. We believe that this is a choice that adults have the right to make.
Why do you only need to be 18? When you are 18, you can get a driver's license, you can vote, you can be a politician, you can drink alcohol. In short, you are considered an adult and ready to make your own informed decisions. We also estimate that not even one per mille of our guests are women under the age of 20. One estimate is that most women who visit us are on average around 35-40 years old.

What we do to keep a good environment with us:
We have strict rules AGAINST:
Prostitution
Drugs
All forms of sexual exploitation.

What happens with us should be done with consent, respect and communication. Photography or filming is not allowed. Exceptions to this may be when, for example, a couple has booked the event department for themselves. Then there is no one who is not invited there and all participants know beforehand if it will be photographed or filmed.

In the event of a breach of any of these rules, the person concerned will be banned.

If a guest wants help in filing a police report, we are happy to help. There have been times when the police have requested assistance in cases, and we have always assisted them. We have a regular dialog with the police, Blue Vision is a place with odd opening hours and then there are always odd people who you may need to keep track of.
In addition to the staff moving around the club as often as we can, we also have about ten regulars who report to us if they see something that doesn't seem right, so we generally have a good idea of what's happening on the premises.

For those of you who are reading this and are angry with us, we ask you to consider one thing: is it okay for a woman to want to have sex with several men? Or is it that you think you know better what all women want and that you therefore want to act as the moral police and limit their sexuality to a level that you find acceptable? Or what is the problem? What could we do better? Raise the age limit to 20? To 25? Have someone from the staff keeping a watchful eye on all interactions inside the club? Anything else?
We, like you, are appalled that abuse and prostitution exist at all and we want to be the best we can be and work to create as safe a place as possible. So if you have viable suggestions on how we can tackle the problem, we'd love to hear them.

Thank you to those of you who have read this far. We also want to thank all of you who have supported us personally and in other ways and who understand that we do not want to hurt you but the opposite. In fact, there were many more of you than we thought, a BIG THANK YOU!

Greetings from the management and staff of Blue Vision