Brastrap flash in Triumph ad a disservice to women

From ‘Not so triumphant for women’, 11 May 2012, Voices, Today online (Tham Kun Moon): It was not too long ago that International Women’s Day was celebrated here and in many other countries. In the same month, an advertisement by an undergarment brand, in which the protagonist wowed her male audience by showing off that [...]

Super Import Nights too sexy

From ‘ Car show heats up with sexy bikini girls’, 4 May 2012, article in insing.com Some are wondering if upcoming car show Super Import Nights (SIN), which features not just cars but also sexy girls, will prove too raunchy – especially for children. SIN is returning for the fourth time this year and will [...]

Facebook pictures photojacked onto porn sites

From ‘Facebook photo ends up on porn, dating site’, 30 April 2012, article by Irene Tham, ST HOUSEWIFE Jules Rahim was shocked when a friend tipped her off last Wednesday that her photo was featured on a pornographic website. That was not the only unauthorised use of the picture of her in a bikini, which [...]

‘Shame’ banned over a threesome scene

From ‘What a Shame about no-show’, 21 April 2012, article by Annabeth Leow, Life! …The critically acclaimed British film Shame, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, will not play in Singapore cinemas – all because of a sex scene involving one man and two women. Cathay-Keris Films had tried to [...]

Cosplay Chapel party scandalous to the Church

From ‘Chapel party at Chijmes called off’, 3 April 2012, article in asiaone.com A controversial party to be held at Chijmes this Saturday has been called off. …The party, which was to be held on Black Saturday, had raised eyebrows due to the provocative images used to promote it. In one image, two young women [...]

Children getting maimed by escalators

From ’4-year-old’s hand torn after being pushed down MRT escalator’, 31 March 2012, article in asiaone.com A four-year-old boy was pushed down the escalator at Ang Mo Kio MRT station, causing his left hand to get caught in the escalator and badly injuring it. The news first broke when Ms Visa Lee, who put up [...]

Brother Cane’s tofu-whipping and pubes-snipping

From ‘Cane re-enactment draws debate’ 16 Dec 2012, article by Corrie Tan, Life! and ‘Why show Brother Cane again?’, 18 Feb 2012, Life! Mailbag, …Artist and film-maker Loo Zihan, 28, is re-enacting Brother Cane, a 1993 performance by Josef Ng which protested the arrests of 12 men during an anti-gay operation in 1992. The performance [...]

Yaw Shin Leong and the Other Opposition woman

From ‘No comment on ‘affair’ rumours’, 26 Jan 2012, article by Melvin Singh, TNP IT HAS not been a happy new year so far for the Workers’ Party MP for Hougang, Mr Yaw Shin Leong, who has become the subject of a raging online firestorm. Allegations about his personal life were posted online last Friday [...]

15 year old Elite model in a skimpy bikini

From ‘Early exposure’, 13 Nov 2011, article by Natasha Ann Zachariah, Sunday Times At just 15, student Fiona Fussi has caused quite a stir. Last week, she set tongues wagging when she was photographed in a bikini as she strutted her stuff for the Elite Model Look 2011 competition here in front of an audience [...]

Singaporeans sexting pictures of their genitals

From ‘Sext and the city’, 16 Oct 2011, article by Kimberly Spykerman, Sunday Times They are called ‘sexts’ – sexually explicit text messages that may include naked photographs of the sender. And the increasing prevalence of ‘sexting’ among young Singaporeans is adding a dangerous dimension to the dating game. Rachel (not her real name), a [...]

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