Comments on: Are Europeans Getting Infected With U.S.A. Prudery?

By: Awry

Awry — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:52:22 +0000

I think it’s a wonderful photo. Reminds me of classic pin-up not a underage girl.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:32:43 +0000

Pigtails are back in–they are soooo behind! As for the stuffed bear, many adult women have at least one. I’ve never tried to snuggle with one like that, sounds like a weekend project! ;->

By: hemingway

hemingway — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:16:31 +0000

Don’t underestimate just how paranoid the current British media/public are about paedophilia it’s really not representative of europe or even british standards as a whole it’s just one thi g that has an absolutely massive sensasionalist air round it (rest assured these same allegations have been aimed at Britney Spears and her “hit me baby one more time” video

By: S

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:29 +0000

‘Europeans are getting infected with US prudery’ is not the ‘only explanation’ for a blog post written by one single person. I mean, I suspect we are a little bit, but… get back to me when we hormonal birth control and STI testing stops being free at point of use, or we start to run abstinence-only education in our schools.

And the UK has always had a massive panicking about paedophilia thing, which pictures like that sensitise.

In any case I notice that the article ends with a question, and that most of the commenters don’t have a problem with it.

By: Bleys

Bleys — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:32:22 +0000

French maids don’t resemble French maids either. That hasn’t changed the imagery of French maid fantasies. Does it make you feel horribly classist to want to bend over your (fake) domestic employee’s? It probably would if more of us had maids.

By: Angela Caperton

Angela Caperton — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:39:56 +0000

You’ve got this all wrong. It’s the bear that’s the problem. How dare those wicked French show a BEAR pressed between the breasts and thighs of a naked woman. It’s just….twisted.

By: BrattyB

BrattyB — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:28:38 +0000

Where people *want* to see evil, they will. Two things, though :

1. I’m not sure it’s right to say “Europeans are getting more prudish”. Maybe one editor from an British blog is, but that doesn’t mean much ;)

2, Being French myself, let me tell you that “the schoolgirl” is nowhere near a national fantasy, because in France, uniforms haven’t been required in public schools for decades. So French Playboy’s readers definitely won’t “feel” that cover the same way British readers (or, say, Japanese ones) would. To us, that picture says “barely legal” and “60′s pinup”, but not schoolgirl at all.