Okay, so there’s a new statue in Kemer (my old stomping ground, about 40km from here), and it’s got some people’s panties in a knot. Here are a couple of different views of the statue, have a look:
The mayor of Kemer has formed an alliance with some local women’s rights groups, and together they’re complaining loudly that the statue is pornographic, that it’s degrading to women, and that it will tarnish the reputation of Kemer as a respectable town.
This made me laugh so hard I nearly passed out. If the mayor is really that deluded that he thinks the statue is what’s tarnishing Kemer’s reputation, then I have to wonder which rock he just crawled out from under. Speaking as a former Kemer resident, anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes in Kemer can tell you that the sculptor has captured the mood and spirit of Kemer perfectly. Kemer is little more than one continuous porn and prostitution pit from April to November— it’s a hotspot for certain nearby nations who send their young girls down by the truckload and pimp them out on the beach, in the nightclubs, and throughout the local hotels and restaurants. You literally cannot spend one afternoon on the beach without seeing money (and not large amounts, I can assure you) openly exchanged for sex acts performed right there on the beach, only hidden from view by the cover of a blanket. On any day of the week you can walk into any nightclub or bar in Kemer and find girls from certain countries wearing almost nothing (some even strip down right there in the club in order to show what’s on offer), hooking up with older men and doing their business either in the nightclub toilets, or back at the man’s hotel. When you walk down the streets of Kemer at night you can actually hear the sounds of sex coming from hotel windows.
And the mayor is worried about a statue ruining Kemer’s reputation? He seriously needs to pull his head out of his ass if he thinks it’s the sculpture that’s degrading to women. The women were doing a fine job of degrading themselves long before the statue ever appeared on the scene.
Me personally, I think the sculptor did a great job— the only thing that would make the statue more accurate would be a five-dollar bill tucked between the girl’s breasts. That’s the true spirit of Kemer right there.
One question, though— if the leader of the town government is so opposed to the sculpture, how did the sculptor manage to get construction approval from the council in the first place? Certainly he would have gone through an application process, no? So I’m not really buying all the shock and horror melodrama from the mayor’s office. Aside from the fact that anyone living anywhere near Kemer would have long ago become immune to the surprise of seeing people having sex in public, I refuse to believe that this statue got built in its entirety without anyone noticing what was going on. Unless of course everyone is so desensitised that at first they just thought the statue was two Kemer inhabitants going about their normal business, and paid it no special attention. Now that I might believe. But the “oh my, I can’t believe the people in the statue are doing something sexual” sentiment is just laughable. Please, like you don’t see that sort of thing ten times a day in Kemer anyway. Sheesh, that’s what Kemer’s all about! Love it or leave it.