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AUGUSTA, Maine – A lingerie shop has stopped using live models to
\n draw attention and customers after one of its models received harassing
\n phone calls, the store’s owner said.<\/p>\n
Spellbound drew protests _ as well as window shoppers _ when it began using
\n live models who dressed in lingerie and posed in the storefront windows
\n shortly after the shop opened on Water Street last fall.<\/p>\n
Some suggested that the women brought life and beauty to the street, while
\n others said using scantily clad women in storefront windows was morally
\n reprehensible. A group calling itself Christians Lovingly Advocating Decency
\n protested in front of the store on Valentine’s Day weekend.<\/p>\n
from Seacoast Online News<\/a><\/p>\n It’s easy to see how live lingerie models could change the whole way Unfortunately, an unbalanced few (fished from the same pool as the mannequin Don’t we feel that this is a gross display of sexism, demeans women Not really. The human form reigns as God’s greatest creation. As Artists at least since the times of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome 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 … Continue reading
\n American men look at a trip to the shopping mall. It makes a lot of sense;
\n although a kinky minority may be able to get excited about display window
\n mannequins (see
\n the Plentyhorse story<\/a>), most American males will watch attractive women in lingerie
\n more intently, mindlessly and tirelessly than even football.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n freaks) feel forced to go further and ruin it for the rest of us. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n in general and these models in particular, and is emblematic of the decline
\n of moral values in our increasingly commercial culture?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n long as the genitals are covered, we see no reason beyond Puritanism,
\n provinciality
\n or priggishness to ban public displays which would merit no more than
\n a PG rating should they appear in a movie.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n reveled in the revealed human body. Maybe if the lingerie shop
\n were in Najaf, say, or Islamabad the community standards would be different,
\n but we say that in a 21st century free country it is a shame we can’t
\n enjoy live lingerie models at a store near us.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"