The Skin in Maine Is Causing Some People Paine

As winter starts to freeze Maine solid until sometime next July, you'd think the residents there would be happy for any sort of diversion, especially one that is fleshly in nature. But as Rogier van Bakel blogs at Nobody's Business, a live lingerie window installation in Augusta has royally pissed off some Mainers:

Some people grouse at the scantily-clad young women in the window of an Augusta lingerie shop, girls who smile and wave at passers-by. The naysayers consider the publicity stunt an assault on family values.

Take Carrie Rossignol, the co-owner of—of all things—a video game store across the road, the kind of emporium where superior morals surely rule the day:

"It's tainting the wholesome businesses down here. I think it's selfish, and I think it's morally reprehensible."

Van Bakel notes ironically that Ms. Rossignol gleefully sells the naughty video game Grand Theft Auto; yeah, yeah, you can make arguments that a window display of real live lingerie offends in a way that a video game never can, but why take all the fun out of this bit? The whole thing here.