(CNN) -- It's a perennial problem. How do you persuade young, apathetic voters to go to the polls? Enter "Voteman" -- Denmark's rather ill-judged and short-lived cartoon solution. The cartoon opens with two apparently politically disaffected young men. The scene switches to Voteman, a muscle-bound, stubble-chinned superhero, answering a call asking him to persuade voters to have their say in the upcoming European Parliament elections. Naked, he leaps up from a bed surrounded by women apparently performing sex acts on him and -- having donned a leather waistcoat and trousers -- sets off from a Bond villain-esque island hideout on his mission, riding a pair of harnessed dolphins as waterskis.
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Cartoon uses muscle-bound character called Voteman to persuade people to vote
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Voteman is depicted in a series of sexually suggestive and violent scenes
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Parliament speaker apologizes, says cartoon was "more serious and offensive" than intended
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Danish Parliament's EU information center created cartoon ahead of European elections
Denmark's turnout for the last European elections in 2009 was close to 60%, well above the @placeholder average of 43%.