Friday, June 8, 2007

US now accepts ‘Postal Porn’


Even the censored version was deemed inappropriate…
Finally some sense from the country where guns are OK and tits illegal: US mail accepts Josephine Baker’s bare breasts
Jean-Claude Baker, one of 1920s Paris pin-up queen Josephine Baker’s adopted children, has won his battle against the US Postal Services. For his New York restaurant Chez Josephine, JC decided to mail out 15,000 postcards, featuring Josephine topless in her feather costume from the Folies-Bergeres music hall in Paris.
The card was refused by a teller of the Postal Services, who said “This is not at all acceptable. This is pornographic advertising!” Jean-Claude then decided to print the card with a superimposed banner stamped with the word “censored” over the offending breasts, but again the post office refused to accept the cards. “The banner still allowed a bit of the breast to be seen,” was the official reason.
Now, talks between New York Civil Liberties Union and the US postal service have established that the tellers were wrong and the mail carrier eventually agreed to accept the cards. The cards will be resent in their full, uncensored, original splendor.
Josephine Baker took French citizenship in 1937, fought in the resistance during World War II and formally adopted 12 children of various races, who she described as her “Rainbow Tribe.” She died in 1975.( from frogsmoke )

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