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nosmokes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 12:17 AM
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Mexican Environmentalists Rethinking Sexy Posters
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MEXICO CITY - Mexican environmentalists on Friday said they might tone down posters of scantily clad women aimed at saving endangered turtles after a government panel that promotes women's rights objected.

The posters seek to dispel a myth that sea turtle eggs are an aphrodisiac. The panel complained that using suggestive images to raise consciousness, even if it is for a worthy cause, is degrading to women.

"My man doesn't need turtle eggs. Because he knows they don't make him more potent," says an Argentine model with a sexy stare in one of the posters.

Environmentalists said the southern state of Guerrero had asked them to change the posters following complaints by the National Women's Institute.
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Every year, tens of thousands of turtles come ashore to lay their eggs on Mexico's Pacific and Caribbean beaches. Many fall prey to poachers who kill the females, extract the eggs from their wombs and sell them as a supposed aphrodisiac.

Earlier this month, poachers chopped to death some 80 protected Olive Ridley sea turtles for their eggs and left their shells scattered on a Pacific beach in Mexico.

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Story Date: 22/8/2005

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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 01:04 AM
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1. when it comes to sex, you're as turned on as you think you are.
that's about it.
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