Live Lingerie Models Pulled for Stalker

AUGUSTA, Maine – A lingerie shop has stopped using live models to
draw attention and customers after one of its models received harassing
phone calls, the store’s owner said.

Spellbound drew protests _ as well as window shoppers _ when it began using
live models who dressed in lingerie and posed in the storefront windows
shortly after the shop opened on Water Street last fall.

Some suggested that the women brought life and beauty to the street, while
others said using scantily clad women in storefront windows was morally
reprehensible. A group calling itself Christians Lovingly Advocating Decency
protested in front of the store on Valentine’s Day weekend.

from Seacoast Online News

It’s easy to see how live lingerie models could change the whole way
American men look at a trip to the shopping mall. It makes a lot of sense;
although a kinky minority may be able to get excited about display window
mannequins (see
the Plentyhorse story
), most American males will watch attractive women in lingerie
more intently, mindlessly and tirelessly than even football.

Unfortunately, an unbalanced few (fished from the same pool as the mannequin
freaks) feel forced to go further and ruin it for the rest of us.

Don’t we feel that this is a gross display of sexism, demeans women
in general and these models in particular, and is emblematic of the decline
of moral values in our increasingly commercial culture?

Not really. The human form reigns as God’s greatest creation. As
long as the genitals are covered, we see no reason beyond Puritanism,
provinciality
or priggishness to ban public displays which would merit no more than
a PG rating should they appear in a movie.

Artists at least since the times of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome
reveled in the revealed human body. Maybe if the lingerie shop
were in Najaf, say, or Islamabad the community standards would be different,
but we say that in a 21st century free country it is a shame we can’t
enjoy live lingerie models at a store near us.

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24 Responses to Live Lingerie Models Pulled for Stalker

  1. Richard says:

    Live lingerie model? Wow, I’ve never seen it before. Now with these stalkers I guess I’ll never will. Damn, some people just ruin it.

  2. That sucks because I just moved to Augusta Maine. I can see why it would be a problem here though.

  3. Veronica says:

    Of course someone needs to ruin it! Such creepy people out there. Great marketing tactic though.

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  5. Ling says:

    Live Lingerie Models? wow, so… Great.

  6. Alice says:

    live lingerie models is something really great
    but the stalkers suck

  7. What was a nice idea can be easily ruined by just one individual. Ohh well their is always online stores Trashy Kinky Lingerie

  8. it’s interesting how people think. the mind can be very imaginative

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  10. Chris says:

    Uplifting, not diminishing…that should be the goal. I think it was a clever idea for the store to come up with.

  11. Katya says:

    Definitively it is a perfect trick to sell, especially such kind of stuff as lingerie. I see often in malls some stores use live model, but lingerie – it is HOT :-)))))

  12. Lingerie says:

    it’s interesting how people think.

  13. shopping says:

    I think this is a wonderful idea. The whole point of marketing is to be different enough to draw attention to your product, and given the response, I think it succeeded.

  14. It’s a shame it had to stop. We should be pleased there are people willing to improve the look of the local area like this. Maybe it will be normal one day.
    It seems a shame that some people are so distrustful of their own feelings that they don’t want to allow something as normal as the human body to be seen or appreciated.

  15. I am with my both hands FOR that kind of innovation selling something, not only lingerie. A person who would never even look that way will stop, start to look, thing, imagine and got interested. For sure he will remember that store for long time.

  16. Big Bras says:

    Geez that was a fantastic idea by the lingerie store. Maybe it would have been better to do it like the week before valentines day or some special day like that to really show how it would fit? Just an idea

  17. samlei72 says:

    seperation of state and church or shall we say, church from business, this business mogul just want to have profit from exploited women, while morally upright christian yield in protest.. will somebody mind their own business.

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  19. – most American males will watch attractive women in lingerie
    more intently, mindlessly and tirelessly than even football… –
    hmm… gotta be right

  20. this like this usually create some issue and controversies because we are living in a world where people have different perceptions on things. to some it maybe just fine but to some its already taking advantage on women. but for me, well as long as it is nicely done, i mean the girls are just there standing as a model and not doing any disturbing moves, then maybe its just okay, it has no difference with models walking on the ramp with their lingerie.
    but i guess the store owner should also be responsible with the welfare & safety of their models. i think it just shocked some people because its something new.

  21. Gary says:

    It is a tough call. People do not like to see things like this when children are present. Now I don’t know how the lady was dressed, yet it seemed to be offensive to some. I think that this kind of advertising can be harmless if done correctly.

  22. looked like a great marketing idea to me. looks a bit like red like district in amsterdam though. be intersting to find out whether people really bought from the store.

  23. I think that’s a brilliant marketing tactic. It’s just a shame that people have to jump up and down about the decline of moral values… It doesn’t sound as though it was done in a tasteless fashion or anything, but hey any publicity is good, right? ;o)

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