Reply #204: Yes Victoria's Secret has sunk low... [View All]

[marions ghost]

their stock must be dropping.

The problem with this is not so much that anybody will see it and it will offend-- the problem is that teenage girls and young women will model themselves on visions of S&M practitioners with anorexic body types. This is not healthy and promotes insecurity about sexuality more than anything else. What says 'sex object' better than mannequins strapped up like this? (Read the post above about the person who was involved with this industry and it's degrading effects). We get all of our information about the culture now either from screens or from such commercial displays. To argue that this display is 'not real' and that it has no effect on behavior is not taking into account the way information is absorbed these days.

This is not about promoting sexual freedom. This is a cynical form of commercial exploitation. It is about slick marketing of overpriced costumes -for women only- in a society obsessed with sex. Of course that cannot be restricted but people who don't want to see this in their face in a 'family-oriented' mall shouldn't have to. It's too provocative. There is an easy compromise here. Keep this inside the store, not in the windows. That's all. They'd still sell enough of the junk. (I have no problem with nudity in advertising whatsoever, but this isn't nudity--it is erotica). I have no illusions that enough parents will see this as negative for their daughters' self image --to stop them from shopping there. But if you restrict certain movies for kids, you'd have to restrict this.