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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
May 31, 2013
Sometimes I wonder if we are stuck in a medieval mental rut. There is a major move in India to ban mannequins in shop windows displaying lingerie because someone has figured out that their presence is directly linked to sex crimes. Really? I mean, really?
Do men get turned on by pieces of plastic and alabaster? When was the last time you were dragged away reluctantly from a shop window because you were smitten by a mannequin? By that token would women look at Rodin’s Thinker or some Greek statue of Pan or Apollo and go all gaga? Would a statue in granite or stone of Aphrodite get you to wear your best clothes and sharpen your repartee?
Surely, these cannot be the moves designed to make women safer in India or anywhere else? Yet, ridiculous as it is, when you think of the fact that porn sells and there are perverts out there and people buy rubber dolls could there be some logic to this absurdity?
I just read about it a few minutes back and I laughed out loud. Then I stopped laughing and I began to think, you know maybe there are cerebral clowns out there who could be encouraged towards bad behavior by seeing life-sized female plaster of Paris figurines.
Think of it. Fifty years ago they had them in the windows and no one would have made any such connection. Today, as we progress with fingertip technology we seem to regress in our minds.
For my part I will never be able to look at a mannequin in a store the same way…now that it has been made into a sex object.
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
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