Nils Johan Ringdal

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Nils Johan Ringdal (born 1952) is a Norwegian historian and writer whose books and essays have always garnered tremendous attention in Norway and been the subject of much debate in the media. He has written about the police, the administration of justice, Norwegian nationalism, and the German occupation during the Second World War. He has also written an autobiographical collection of essays entitled The Death of Lust?: A Journey through Gay Culture. He became interested in writing about prostitution when his partner Georg Petersen, an M.D. working in public health, spearheaded an AIDS-prevention program in Oslo, which hired a prostitute as a consultant. Petersen later used this experience as advisor to the World Health Organization.