DR Nyheder opened a live question and answer session on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, letting parents and young people put questions about online pornography to experts from Red Barnet and Sex og Samfund.
The public broadcaster is running the session as a liveblog, where readers submit questions in real time. According to DR, the format is aimed both at parents worried that their child is watching too much pornography and at young people with questions about material they have seen online.
Two named experts are answering. They are Christoffer Borup, a psychologist and counsellor at Red Barnet’s TalMedOs counselling service, and Julia Kadin Funge, a health professional advisor at Sex og Samfund. DR states that questions are collected through a live interaction frame embedded in the article.
DR frames the session around two practical concerns. One is uncertainty among parents about how much pornography their child is seeing. The other is how to start the conversation with a child about it at all.
Background on the counselling services
TalMedOs, the service represented by Borup, was presented by Red Barnet in a 2025 press release as Denmark’s first anonymous counselling service for children and young people with sexual thoughts about children or worrying sexual behavior. As stated in that release, the service is free and anonymous, offers phone, chat and email contact for people up to the age of 24, and is funded by the Social and Housing Ministry through 2026.
DR reported in 2025, when the line opened, that TalMedOs was staffed by four professional counsellors and available by phone and chat for 15 hours a week. In a separate 2025 release, Red Barnet said the service had been used by young people who had seen sexual abuse material involving children. The organization’s own site describes the counselling as intended to help users manage such thoughts and avoid harming others.
Guidance published on the TalMedOs website also sets out the legal position. Per that material, viewing sexual images or videos of people under 18 is illegal in Denmark. The guidance tells young people who have seen such content to stop, delete it, and either seek help or report it anonymously through Red Barnet’s AnmeldDet hotline.
Sex og Samfund, the second organization taking part, works on sexual health and sex education in Denmark. Funge is taking questions alongside Borup during the session.
As of August 18, 2026, DR appears to be the only outlet reporting on this particular live session with the two organizations. No parallel coverage of the event has been published by other major Danish or international outlets.
