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Letters of the President

September Letter 2026

September letter 2026At the beginning of this month, including the International Sexual Health-day we, my wife and colleague Elsa Almås and I, spent some exiting days at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. The occasion was the second meeting of the WSHA,...

August Letter 2026

August letter 2026 It lights up at night     From selected windows in a tall building in Oslo, the lights are on, and when darkness arrive, the word «TILLIT» stands out in all its splendour. TILLIT means TRUST. How extremely interesting then that this piece...

July letter 2026

July letter 2026 The Porto Proclamation Rights, justice and euphoria   One may see these items as sides of the same issue, which I shall not dispute. Nevertheless, we must realize that rights are constructed through time consuming political and bureaucratic...

April Letter 2026

April letter 2026   Once I had a conversation with the volcano Hekla at Island. The two of us compared strengths. In the beginning she found this utterly strange and said: I change the surface of the globe, by me the mountains disappear and hills arise where prior no...

March Letter 2026

March letter 2026   Maybe springtime is the most inspiring time of the year. Everything lights up, even our minds, if we let them.I walked to the harbour and listened to the birds cheering from the bushes by the sidewalk. There was sun, by the bay there was a breeze,...

June 2025 letter

June letter 2025 Rainbow flags are flying, parades move through villages, towns and cities. Love is in the air, nature blooms, our garden is swarming with buzy bees, wasps and bumblebees, the strawberry jasmin lets its wonderful fragrance find its way to our nostrils....

May Letter 2025

May letter 2025   We call it the beautiful month of May here where I do stay. We the Norwegians celebrated our Day of Independence on May 17th . Happy children, free children in multiple outfits paraded our streets cheering with joy, waving handheld flags and...

March Letter 2025

March letter 2025   March in the North is the time when Nature in a tense span of time moves from ice to melt. Spectacular beauties rise from the soil, rivers and creeks are flooding and birds sing serenades to the morning sun. Some things happen also within our...

April Letter 2025

April letter 2025   April is the month of natural “resurrection” on the Northern hemisphere. Birds and insects are alive and rejoicing. Hibernating bears are peeping out of from their winter dwellings, taking in the odours from the awakening forests. Nature seems...

February letter 2025

February letter 2025   In Europe, spring is both hesitating, budding and blooming all depending on where you dwell on the European continent. Even in Norway, the rays from the sun add a little warmth to our cheeks. This yearly joy brings energy and vitality. EFS...

January 2025 letter

January letter 2025   In this month many people around the world felt as if an abyss opened under their feet. This was also the case in Europe, and students at my University of Agder are calling out for responses from fellow sexologists. I take it that they are...