"Sexist And Degrading!"
That's what some French feminists are calling a new guide to the pretty women of Paris, which makes me want to pick a copy up right away. Unfortunately, you'll have to look real hard to find the French hotties in this BBC video.
AFP's Rory Mulholland quotes the author of the guidebook, Pierre-Louis Colin, the speech writer of a French foreign minister:
"Just as every region has its gastronomy, every quartier has its feminine speciality," ... "You do not find in Menilmontant the sublime legs you see at the Madeleine. But you do find perfectly shameless cleavages, radiant breasts often uncluttered by a bra," he said in his own book, which was published last month.Paris is the most visited capital in the world and people come here to see city's magnificent women as much as they come to admire the Mona Lisa and the Eiffel Tower, Colin told AFP.
He could find no guidebooks to the human wonders of Paris so he decided to produce his own. The result is the 190-page "Guide des jolies femmes de Paris," which is more of a literary essay than a fact-packed guidebook.
Area by area, Colin notes the best observation posts -- bars, supermarkets, parks, museums, metro trains -- and the best times of day for the connoisseur to contemplate various Parisienne archetypes.
"Trendy youth," characterised by the "generalisation of the G-string and the near disappearance of the bra" is to be seen on rue Montorgueil, a pedestrian strip of cafés and upmarket food shops which the author hails as the "epicentre of the city's erotic radiations."
Rue Montorgueil, huh? Judge the legs for yourself. Personally, I think you'll have more luck on parade days in the Marais (complete with Crid's two femmes favorites, as they say in France).
The one on the left is quite taken with me... You can see it in her eyes. But she's kinda intimidated by the wisdom implicit in my advancing years, so she can't really part her lips to smile... Yet. The one on the right knows her friend well and is thinking "Dude, you're going to have such a great weekend."
What? What's so funny?
Crid at May 13, 2008 12:46 AM
Close friendship between two beautiful women is such a wonderful thing...(insert wicked laughter of choice here)
Robert at May 13, 2008 2:21 AM
With photos like that, any comments would be superfluous! If anybody needs me, I'll be in my cubicle, ruminating on my passing youth and smiling wistfully...
old rpm daddy at May 13, 2008 4:50 AM
"With photos like that, any comments would be superfluous! " How about yummy.
vlad at May 13, 2008 6:19 AM
Bare midriffs without the muffin. See, it can be done.
Pirate Jo at May 13, 2008 8:37 AM
Um, what were we discussing again?
Joe at May 13, 2008 3:43 PM
I almost said "no muffin-tops!" this morning.
My current obsession:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJLyZqETuBU
Mmmm.. Europe.
eric at May 13, 2008 6:54 PM
Eric - fun clip, but there are far sexier pictures of Angela elsewhere. That video's makeup artist made her look a little scary.
snakeman99 at May 13, 2008 7:14 PM
If you must do Opera, then go gay... go weird... go Manhattan in the'70s... Go countertenor.
Crid at May 13, 2008 7:36 PM
Ohhhh, the last three seconds of that clip...
the Angela clip, not the Frankenfurter one.
Other than Janice singing "Summertime", or Grace Slick singing "The Children Will Dance", what is sexier than Habanera?
eric at May 13, 2008 9:39 PM
oops- Grace Slick singing "Seasons". Same song, correct title.
eric at May 13, 2008 9:45 PM
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