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Mariah Carey and the Attack of Cat Blob

Saynt — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:43:14 +0000

Apparently Mariah Carey album covers are a little too risque for Saudi Arabia. Check out all the photoshoped covers including Cat Blob.

Cat Blob Wins!!!

ARNALDO ANAYA-LUCCA: A LOVE STORY by Navo

Lope Navo, Photographer — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:59:14 +0000

TWO MEN DEFIED A KINGDOM (NY) I’ve never been in-love, my first boyfriend when I was 21 was Feras , a Syrian-born chef who works for one of the hotels in the city of Riyadh , when I was based there as a graphic designer almost a decade ago. I know what your thinking now, Saudi Arabia + homosexual relationship = heads rolling over a basket , and my first ‘ bromance ‘ will sound like an epic movie that Anthony Minghella would direct “set in the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia, two men defied a kingdom” . We had it going for 2 long passionate years, I remembered being relocated to Al -Khobar and Feras would drive 500 km towards the Gulf Coast just to see me, looking back, in a way we did defy a kingdom , and that’s the closest thing I have for a romance story in my life

Katy Perry Banned in Saudi Arabia

Rebecca Alexander — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:30:29 +0000

Apparently, Katy Perry is too sexy for Saudi Arabia where her album art has been censored. Look at the 2 photos above, notice a difference?

This is the work of Saudi Arabia’s Committee For Protection Of Virtue and Prevention Of Vice. The committee even has police, who are apparently armed with felt-tip pens for any trips they might make to the record store:

Now those of you who have purchased CDs know how much trouble it is to take that plastic wrap off. And then to remove the front insert and especially removing the back insert from the CD case without breaking the plastic case can be tricky. So what it all boils down to is that the Saudi government is actually paying religious police members of the Committee for the Protection of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CVPVP) to remove the plastic wrap from these CDs, open up the CD cases, remove the front and back inserts, and carefully and painstakingly color in with a marker any photos baring exposed female flesh that is deemed objectionable. Hence, while the general public is protected from such vulgarity, the CVPVP members get to view photos with women’s flesh abounding and then get to stroke on colored markers over the exposed women’s skin. I wonder what they are thinking or how they feel as they stroke those markers onto the smooth female flesh in the photos. I wonder if it makes them feel good that they are shielding young teenage boys from such crude displays of the nubile female form.

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