Friday, September 9, 2011

Boobies, booty: banned





















LET ME make something perfectly clear. I buy Esquire for the articles.
That said, imagine my surprise when at the newsstand this afternoon I was flipping through the September* issue and came across these censored pictures of some "actress" named Ruah.
When I came to Doha I knew about the conservative society. I wondered whether I'd be able to buy Western magazines such as Esquire, GQ or Vanity Fair. Because more often than not, these publications, as everyone knows, feature scantily clad women. How would this jive in a country where Qatari women in public are veiled and covered head to toe?
It seems they've found a compromise
Apparently they hire some guy, or guys, to edit out the naughty bits with a black marker.
Rather clever, if labour intensive, I thought.
Flipping through the magazine I didn't at first notice the alterations until, um, closer inspection.
I couldn't believe it. So I flipped through six or seven more copies... all the same. No butt cheeks, or gentle curves. Sigh.
Still, I suppose given the choice between that and no magazine at all, well, strikes me as relatively reasonable.
But man, I'd love to interview the guys whose job it is to identify which pix get blacked out, and what the guys doing the inking think.
What's that old chestnut again?
The pen is mightier than the sexpot?

* http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/daniela-ruah-pictures-0911?click=main_sr#img

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