Danish tourism official quits over 'promiscuous' videoA senior Danish tourism official resigned on Friday after a row over a promotional video aimed at attracting visitors which critics said promoted promiscuity Promiscuity See also Profligacy. Anatol constantly flits from one girl to another. [Aust. Drama: Schnitzler Anatol in Benét, 33] Aphrodite promiscuous goddess of sensual love. [Gk. Myth. . Dorte Kiilerich, the operations director for tourism agency VisitDenmark and in charge of the video, stepped down after the film triggered a political storm. The short film was posted on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and showed a pretty, blonde Danish woman clutching a baby in her arms. She is searching for the father of the child called August. The father is supposedly a foreign tourist she says she met and drank with while he was on holiday in Denmark. After recalling how she met the man, the young mother says: "I don't remember where you are from... I don't even remember your name." Kiilerich tried to quell quell tr.v. quelled, quell·ing, quells 1. To put down forcibly; suppress: Police quelled the riot. 2. the ensuing en·sue intr.v. en·sued, en·su·ing, en·sues 1. To follow as a consequence or result. See Synonyms at follow. 2. To take place subsequently. media storm by defending the project as "a nice and sweet story of a woman". But Economy Minister Lene Espersen Lene Espersen (born September 26 1965) is a Danish politician representing the Conservative People's Party. She has been the Minister of Justice since November 27 2001 in the Cabinets of Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Lene Espersen has been a member of parliament (folketinget) since 1994. , whose portfolio includes tourism, criticised the video as "a not very well thought-out picture of the country". 
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