[SGI News] Indonesian Dance Deemed Too Pornographic

[SGI]

ANTI-PORN protestors are threatening to ban a traditional Indonesian folk dance because female dancers are showing their underarms.

West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan has warned dancers of the jaipong dance – performed at official ceremonies and cultural festivals – to tone down their erotic moves and hide their underarms to comply with the law.

Islamic parties are also targeting the dance ahead of the April general elections, after parliament passed a controversial anti-porn law in December.

"The dance shouldn't be too erotic," Tifatul Sembiring, a senior leader of the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party, said.

"It's true that in the '80s the jaipong dancers danced on tables in seedy places. Even now you can see them wearing tight clothes dancing at roadside bars," he said.

"The worry is that once the anti-porn bill is fully implemented, the dance may be banned because it's too erotic."

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[Sasori|Eternal Sacrifice|]

Simply because female dancers are showing their underarms?

Wow.. I stand corrected, my hope in humanity is lost..

I thought we were through with that "women cant show too much skin" issue..

[Khanxay]

Underarms? Erotic...?

 

EW.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

Simply because female dancers are showing their underarms?

Wow.. I stand corrected, my hope in humanity is lost..

I thought we were through with that "women cant show too much skin" issue..

Umm, Indonesia is about 88% Islamic. You know, the people whose book states that women can't go outside without a shawl or better (depending on who's reading).

I mean, what's next, Christians accusing some form of media of being the devil's work?

[Sasori|Eternal Sacrifice|]

Umm, Indonesia is about 88% Islamic. You know, the people whose book states that women can't go outside without a shawl or better (depending on who's reading).

I mean, what's next, Christians accusing some form of media of being the devil's work?

I wouldn't doubt it.

[Capernicus]

...it was a satirical question.

[Sanosuke23]

...it was a satirical question.

He is young. Life has been kind.

He will learn.

[suzumi]

Underarms? Erotic...?

 

EW.

Apparently underarms are a huge turn on for some men. =P

[Eris]

That is no underarm pr0n. This is underarm pr0n:

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[Aizmov]

facepalm

Same people are really really stupid and to top it off they are intolerant!

I can never understand a society that has half their population dressed like beekeepers.

What makes it worse it is generally a conformist society, as a muslim you are expected to conform. Any *modern* ideas and you are labeled as a heretic, and it wont be too long before you are declared unworthy and your blood is to be spilled.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

What makes it worse it is generally a conformist society, as a muslim you are expected to conform. Any *modern* ideas and you are labeled as a heretic, and it wont be too long before you are declared unworthy and your blood is to be spilled.

I'll take Western Generalizations for 1000.

[Aizmov]

I'll take Western Generalizations for 1000.

I'll take I'm an Arab-American whose family originates from the Middle East and lived in the Middle East for a considerable number of years. I lived in a very Islamic society, I know how it is like.

Edit: To clarify.. The Muslim world today is like Europe in the Middle Ages. Not necessarily each and every Muslim is intolerant and opposing to change and civil liberties, but those who in control are, and the general public is living in fear and denial.

[-akichan-]

Bandung tourism and culture chief Askary said: "Without shaking and gyrating, you can't call it jaipong. I don't consider it erotic, titillating or lustful. That's all in the mind. If people want to think of something as erotic, it will be erotic."

That's what in my mind as well. It depends on the people from different cultural background that thinks differently. Some people from very traditional cultural countries would call that erotic, but in Indonesia, that's the traditional dress of their traditional dance. I don't see anything inappropriate on the dress. Unless people think dirty, then it is dirty to them. If that's being told, then why can't the Chinese gymnastic teams hide their shoulders and thighs?! Different people from different cultural background think different. Just as how the Easterners think of the singers in America, dance dirty and sing dirty, because in their countries, they don't see things like that. I somehow find this as prejudice for calling a traditional dress as erotic, just as when people call the Western girls dirty for wearing small bikinis.

If the dress was meant to be traditional, then why didn't anyone said it was erotic 100 years ago? Why now?! It's just pointless~

[Magical Soul]

This is a bit dramatic don't you think?

[Khanxay]

Apparently underarms are a huge turn on for some men. =P

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NO. BAD thoughts! In... my... head! Gah!

[DOOM!]

There was this 80's italian movie where the perv protagonist gets caught in the act, licking a woman's armpit hair. At first hand, I thought "Kinky!". Just hours later, I gugitated "Wait! What?".

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

I'll take I'm an Arab-American whose family originates from the Middle East and lived in the Middle East for a considerable number of years. I lived in a very Islamic society, I know how it is like.

Edit: To clarify.. The Muslim world today is like Europe in the Middle Ages. Not necessarily each and every Muslim is intolerant and opposing to change and civil liberties, but those who in control are, and the general public is living in fear and denial.

It's rather like my feeling that America is ruled by Fundies. It seems true because I see them screaming all the time and witness people giving them undue attention, but if you look at the actual demographics it clearly is false. Most Islamics could care less about uncovered arms, it's simply that the ones that do scream loudest and the moderates don't shut them up. It's not that there isn't a problem, it's that the numbers don't pan out.

So in other words, I'm not disagreeing with you, per say, I simply think that your statement seemed to imply that you saw that the majority were the problem, and not a vocal minority.

[Diocletian]

Underarms? Erotic...?

 

EW.

There's 34 on underarms. There's Dion 34 there has to be underarm 34.

It's about time. Women have been revealing too much lately 'bout time we did something about it. What is wrong with them? It's just underarms. This is so crazy!

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

There's 34 on underarms. There's Dion 34 there has to be underarm 34.

It's about time. Women have been revealing too much lately 'bout time we did something about it. What is wrong with them? It's just underarms. This is so crazy!

The way the Islamic-fundies read the Koran, if you are in public and can tell the that the person in a robe is female, there's a huge problem. This is even worse- you can see her skin!

[Khanxay]

There's 34 on underarms.

I'm glad to have not yet encounter that on the net. But sadly, it's inevitable that some pop-up image will make it through my wall of browser defenses.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

I'm glad to have not yet encounter that on the net. But sadly, it's inevitable that some pop-up image will make it through my wall of browser defenses.

I haven't some across it per say, but I did come read a short lemon in which Suiseiseki's doll-limbs were pulled off to make her joints more... accessible.

[Khanxay]

I haven't some across it per say, but I did come read a short lemon in which Suiseiseki's doll-limbs were pulled off to make her joints more... accessible.

Well, lemons don't forcibly make you notice them by coming out in a separate window or frame with flashing lights and images and sounds, and make all those around you wonder what site you're on.

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

Well, lemons don't forcibly make you notice them by coming out in a separate window or frame with flashing lights and images and sounds, and make all those around you wonder what site you're on.

Someone should get to work on that. Microsoft Sam could start reading the juicy parts to you.

[Srk]

.....showing their underarms is bad?

When did this happen?

[Diocletian]

The way the Islamic-fundies read the Koran, if you are in public and can tell the that the person in a robe is female, there's a huge problem. This is even worse- you can see her skin!

Personally that fact that there is a woman in public disturbs me. Wow! They're so mean! Why would anyone do that?


BTW, Khan just look up underarm fetish. There's a butload of stuff on gay armpit fetishes, etc.