lunes, abril 25, 2005

Internet pornography scandal shared with the world!!!

Oh god, totally apropos of the movie we watched yesterday _The Holy Land_ by Eitan Gorlin, about a nerdy Yeshiva boy that goes to Jerusalem because he falls madly in love with a Russian prostitute who can only, as she says, get wet for older men, and that ends with a bomb that he himself smuggled across "borders" unbeknownst to him, much like the fall guy in _Terra Estrangeira_...

So, I was searching the web for information on Rio's Zona Sul for a paper for tomorrow and (of course now I can't find it to link, oh well) I was distracted by an article about a sex scandal with some 40-year-old hebrew teacher (I know, what I reporter I would make) and his cohort the Israeli consul, caught in "sexual exploration" with young girls (a 17-year-old, who he swears gave hims papers saying she was 18, accused him) and boys. Aparently they were accused of running a sex-tourism ring, and they were caught with, get this, 17 photos, 8 videos and 2 DVDs, clearly professionals. But the most amusing part of this article was not the surprising prudishness of the Brazilian press, but the unabashed hypocrisy. This girl was complaining that she found her image -naked on the roof of a car, and nothing much harder than what you might find in a Victoria's Secret catalogue- posted on the internet and they INCLUDED the image in the article. What the faaa?

I was chuckling to myself for a good half hour.