In retrospect, Voorlichting 1991 was more than a safe-sex campaign. It was a stress test for the limits of public service media in a democracy. By choosing to inform rather than ignore, to show rather than imply, the BRT transformed Belgian television from a guardian of Catholic propriety into a platform for radical honesty. The images that scandalized 1991—condoms on primetime, children’s cartoons with sperm, live talk about erectile dysfunction—are now archival artifacts of a media landscape that learned to trust its audience. But the principle endures: that entertainment media, when guided by education and social responsibility, can illuminate the most private aspects of human life without descending into exploitation. For a small, divided nation like Belgium, that was a revolution worth broadcasting.
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