First Indian In Playboy
Sherlyn Chopra at playboy.com.
Indian women are renowned as some of the most beautiful in the world, but they still haven’t appeared in Playboy. Until now. Bollywood C-lister Sherlyn Chopra (Twitter) will be the first Indian to appear nude in the softcore glad rag this November (Hollywood Reporter).
Despite being historically and religiously more open about sexuality (the kama sutra, no majore proscriptions in Hinduism), modern India has some major issues treating women honorably. Of G20 economies, India was recently rated the worst place to be a woman, worse even than Saudi Arabia. Crime against women is rising, especially cruelty in the home.
The same voices that are appalled at a woman’s naked body in print are often part of the acquiescence to the casual crime and abuse that takes place, usually at home. I’m not saying posing nude is the answer to India’s social ills, but loosening up a bit might help. Still, I can’t imagine how much trouble Ms. Chopra is going to get if she continues to live in India. That said, however, Indian-origin porn star Sunny Leone has made a pretty successful entry to Bollywood (filming in Sri Lanka also), so perhaps slowly the country is beginning to change.
Perhaps the issues aren’t connected at all. Perhaps that’s just me. I do think a woman’s body is hers to do what she wants with. Within families and relationships that’s obviously negotiated, but on a social level, if she wants to pose naked, that should be totally fine. If a woman wants to wear a miniskirt and walk around a city, also fine. That it’s currently not advisable in India or here is one thing, but the solution isn’t to hide women away.
There’s one school of thought that the world is that way so to keep women safe they must behave a certain way. But that doesn’t work. It just leads to women being abused or dowry killed or girls being aborted in the family structures that are supposed to protect them from the hostile streets.
Personally, I think the solution is more openness and to change the bad parts of the world, not to ask women to simply work around them. Does that have anything to do with an Indian in Playboy? Maybe not. But in my head it’s a good thing.
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“Indian women are renowned as some of the most beautiful in the world” — Rubbish. Indians women are the ugliest in the world. Dark skinned and ugly. Why this kind of “false” thinking comes from the sheer size of the population. Out of 1.2 BILLION people, even if 1% are really beautiful, i.e. 12 Million. You get a huge amount, but look at the percentage. 99% are butt ugly. This is the thing with India. India has 1% very beautiful women, however 99% are dark skinned and ugly or just plain. Do you know that the India is the biggest market for skin whitening creams. Not only Indian women but men also are havily into skin whitening creams. So why do you think that is???? I think you have to look at the big picture. If you don’t believe me just look at a typical street screen in New Delhi or Bombay:
http://www.bugbog.com/images/galleries/india-pictures/A-india-photos/delhi-india/busy-street-new-delhi.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/466573816_3366025441.jpg
http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120423&t=2&i=598414981&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CDEE83M1U2K00
Great for people watching, don’t you think???? :-D
Absolutely agree with you on this. Here is the Indian population (1.2 billion ) broken down:
(a.) 1/2 are downright unattractive.
(b.) Another considerable chunk are plain (neither ugly nor beautiful).
(c.) Very minute % are very beautiful.
I would disagree with the 1%. I’d say it is more like 0.1% that’s beautiful. That’s about a million.
Indians are overrated, overhyped garbage. Has anybody being to India??? It is literally a TOILET. Just one big gigantic toilet. Indians are also the rudest people in the planet with horrific manners (or lack of it). I don’t know why Indi is buttkissing Indians like this???
Dark skinned filth. They dream of washing the black out of them but even if you see a face that dont look ape
just look at their bodies, all hair and darkness where the bleach didnt reach.
lol you shameless fucking stat whore.
Stats are facts man. I was just stating the obvious which may be hard to digest. But this is a the truth. Indians are UGLY. That is the General Rule. Ok about 1% are beautiuful but that is only the exception. Exceptions don’t make the rule. I am assuming you are an Indian??? Hik hik LMAO
Burqas are the answer. Burqas are an excellent invisibility device. All women and men for that matter should wear them. If you are invisible no one can see you ergo you will not be harassed. In theory anyway. I was in McDonalds today. Saw some stunning examples. As an aside how do they eat with them on? Do you need to keep lifting the veil or is their a slit for the mouth? Anyways awesome.
BTW Indra that’s no way to talk about your mum. She’s dark and tasty, a MILF for sure.
At least my mum looks good, unlike your mommy -> http://tiny.cc/f0sfjw ROFL
Mom why are you sleeping with Indra?