Out From Under

A week or so ago we entered the world of clever and non-scatalogical potty humor. Pretty women adorn the wall of an unknown men’s room, to the entertainment or discomfiture of the men who must drop their drawers under their not-always adoring scrutiny. That’s funny.

Then we have this take on the same idea, and we move from the … well, maybe not sublime, but clever … to the ridiculous.

Ooooh, baby. Take me now.

And now you’re wondering: Why are there scantily-clad women in the men’s room, anyway? Is there some connection between peeing and sex (beyond the obvious fetish) we’re missing? Isn’t it hard to pee when you have an erection? I’ve heard that the hydraulics interfere. Surely we don’t want the boy pointing north when the urinal is due south?

Not that there’s really much danger of that. Second-rate department store mannequins dressed in third-rate lingerie don’t exude sex. Do they? Are there men out there who’ll find these things sexy?

I know, the video claimed it as art. Yeah. There are some gorgeous displays out there, some truly artful, inspired, striking, disturbing, intelligent uses of mannequins. But these things? These are dollar store mannequins. You can rationalize their presence how you like, but ‘art’ they ain’t.

It’s not that they’re ugly, which they manifestly are. Sex (like art) isn’t limited to the young and beautiful (despite the heartfelt belief of the young and beautiful). But these things aren’t just ugly, they’re tawdry. Worse, demeaning. Demeaning to the women they represent, the men who find them erotic, and them men who find the tawdriness of this B-grade peep show tedious or embarrassing.

And if this somehow achieves “sexy”, that still doesn’t answer the question: why? Why here? Because, hey, we’re not naive around here. Sex has been happening in bathrooms since bathrooms were invented. But, last we checked, it was still illegal in most jurisdictions.

Very silly.

via: Oddly Enough

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