Aqua
05-25-2005, 01:49 PM
Ok... it's not exactly a Lilith bear but read on...
Story can be found... here. (http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Dominatrix-teddy-bear-whips-up-outrage/2005/05/25/1116950758389.html?oneclick=true)
Dominatrix teddy bear whips up outrage
Zurich
(see link above for photo)
A dominatrix giant model teddy painted wearing a leather mask and brandishing a paddle and hand-cuffs.
Photo: Reuters
A giant dominatrix teddy bear wearing a leather mask and brandishing handcuffs has been banned from sober Zurich's street display of man-sized model bears, the project's artistic director said today.
While tourists pose for snaps next to a brightly-painted and benign array of models such as the schoolteacher bear and the skier bear, Baervers - a pun on the German for perverse - has been deemed too steamy for the financial capital's streets.
"This bear is perverse, dominatrix and hardcore. We had to ban it because of the children," Beat Seeberger-Quin, the project's art director, told Reuters.
The offending bear, which sports bright red lipstick, a corset and thigh-length leather boots, stands atop a pedestal bearing the words "first class service."
Some 600 teddies, variously decorated by artists, stud the streets of Zurich and its airport in the Teddy-Summer project.
Story can be found... here. (http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Dominatrix-teddy-bear-whips-up-outrage/2005/05/25/1116950758389.html?oneclick=true)
Dominatrix teddy bear whips up outrage
Zurich
(see link above for photo)
A dominatrix giant model teddy painted wearing a leather mask and brandishing a paddle and hand-cuffs.
Photo: Reuters
A giant dominatrix teddy bear wearing a leather mask and brandishing handcuffs has been banned from sober Zurich's street display of man-sized model bears, the project's artistic director said today.
While tourists pose for snaps next to a brightly-painted and benign array of models such as the schoolteacher bear and the skier bear, Baervers - a pun on the German for perverse - has been deemed too steamy for the financial capital's streets.
"This bear is perverse, dominatrix and hardcore. We had to ban it because of the children," Beat Seeberger-Quin, the project's art director, told Reuters.
The offending bear, which sports bright red lipstick, a corset and thigh-length leather boots, stands atop a pedestal bearing the words "first class service."
Some 600 teddies, variously decorated by artists, stud the streets of Zurich and its airport in the Teddy-Summer project.