A seriously wrong dress?
When I worked for a magazine in China, we got away with a lot of semi-dirty sight gags and visual puns in the layout, such as a drooping Eiffel Tower to accompany a piece on erectile disfunction or a pair of Ben Wa balls to illustrate a story about testicular cancer. Mostly, we were just trying to test the state censors to see what we could get away with. We Westerners on staff would chuckle, acknowledging the immaturity of our jokes, but claiming that the “Nanny State” (as we lovingly referred to the Chinese government) forced us to behave like children. We also occasionally realized that our jokes went over the heads of many of our Chinese colleagues. One theory was that Chinese people hadn’t been conditioned through a Freudian mindset to see cigars as anything but cigars, and therefore didn’t perpetually have their minds in the gutter. Perhaps the designer of the dress above (sold by online retailer Light in the Box, no less) really only sees in his or her design a beautiful pink rose blooming from the wearer’s crotch.
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