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Was He Thinking?
It's still Christmastime in Manhattan and the streets are packed with people looking for bargains and photo opportunities. Unremarkable. Everyone does this.
And yet, surprises lurk around the most obvious corners.
West 4t h Street between 6th and 7th avenues is a high traffic area packed with bars, an ice cream parlor and quite a number of sex shops, including the quite famous Pink Pussycat Boutique.
These places have been around for so long that one isn't particularly inclined to blink, let alone raise one's eyebrows, UNLESS one sees some guy (grown-up) taking a picture of a group of four girls (all clearly under 10) posing in front of one of the less cuddly of these spots blowing kisses to the camera.
This was a little awful. The window was full of mannequins wearing and demonstrating bondage gear on each other and the featured products were a "Love Swing" trapeze, along assorted dildos, and feather boa g-strings. (Citysearch has an amusing review of the store, pronouncing it: "Not for the faint of heart.")
Certainly this was unfortunate. I wonder if this father figure really just didn't understand what he was doing. Is it that New York become so "safe" that even the sex shops look like fun and appealing playgrounds for little girls? Maybe he was so exhausted from carting his charges around the West Village all day that he had no idea what he was doing- but that's not reassuring. I should say here that not only were the children eager to pose for him, they lingered behind him studying the window and pointing out the outfits that they liked (in addition to leather there were sexy kilt and a holiday thong and bustier-thing set in red with white trim).
Don't misunderstand me. This is not to say that the stores shouldn't be there. I'm all in favor of them. I don't care if children see or ask about these things. What's problematic is that the kids were suddenly- literally- part of the picture.
posted by Elise at 9:40 AM
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