By 1991, the world was in the midst of the HIV/AIDS crisis. While many countries responded with fear-based "abstinence-only" messaging, the Netherlands took a different path: .
– In the early 1990s, Dutch public broadcasting (like NOS or Teleac) produced sexual education programs for teenagers, often featuring fictionalized relationship scenarios. These sometimes included ongoing romantic subplots (first love, jealousy, breakups) to illustrate communication and consent.