Does the German government publish a sexual education website that includes a cartoon panel saying "Most German men will be happy to have gay sex with immigrants"? No, that's not true: The phrase doesn't appear on the German sex education site. The version circulating on X.com is a doctored version of an infographic used in multiple countries. The panel appearing in the meme was taken from a Belgian edition of the Zanzu web publication, hence the Zanzu.be label. The captions on the panel were doctored, replacing wording about sexual orientation and homosexual rights.
The illustration with the fake caption appeared in a May 24, 2025 X post (archived here) on the @TheRoyalSerf account under the title "If you're a new immigrant to Germany and wish to have gay sex with a German man, check out the German government's helpful website for instructions." It continued:
Most German men will be happy to have gay sex with immigrants, but it's important to ask first.
Here's what the post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:
(Source: X.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
The phrase "Most German men will be happy to have gay sex with immigrants" does not appear on the German Zanzu website, Lead Stories found by using the phrase in the site's English search tool:
(Source: Zanzu.de screenshot by Lead Stories.)
The cartoon panel and style of presentation was lifted from Zanzu, a sexual health education website built by Sensoa, a Belgian reproductive health organization. Though Sensoa serves the Flemish population of Belgium, the sex ed materials are translated into multiple languages to better serve refugees and immigrants. They have been used by other national health ministries, including Germany's Federal Center for Health Education. At the time of launch in 2016, Deutsche Welle reported (archived here) that some Germans were unhappy with the site's depictions of, for example, interracial couples having sex.
Here are the two examples of how the panel actually appears on the German government's Zanzu site:
(Source: Zanzu.de screenshots arranged in a single graphic by Lead Stories.)
Lead Stories has reached out to Germany's public health ministry to corroborate the date of publication of the panel and the original wording that accompanies it and will update this fact check when they reply.
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