The Secret Has No Clothes

Watching the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show on CBS the Wednesday before last confirmed the following stereotypes:

1. Models are stupid.

2. Models, rather than having astoundingly sexy bodies, barely have bodies at all. They really are just coathangers.

3. The uniformity of the models’ bodies makes watching a lot of them in succession merely banal–the nudity, or near nudity, is not only not surprising nor exciting, it is simply uniform, like watching a succession of paper clips march down the runway with impossible underwear attached.

4. Yet, knowing all this, and realizing it even as I watch, I watch. I can’t keep my eyes off of it, can’t keep the drool from pooling on the carpet.

5. Except when Sting came on. Then I got up to get a beer.

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