An
Italian sex shop’s ‘tree of pleasure’ adorned with vibrators
violated the ‘holiday for children and families’ spirit. But shop
owner Norma Rossetti says she just wanted to help people see the
toys as ‘completely normal everyday objects.’
This
hardly seems in the Christmas spirit.
Officials in Milan have ordered the removal of a public Christmas
tree which was decorated with sex toys.
The
provocatively adorned Christmas tree in central Milan was just too
naughty for a time of year that “requires sobriety in urban
decorations,’’ officials said.
A sex shop had erected the "Tree of Pleasure" for the holidays
outside its store on a busy shopping street in the northern Italian
city.
Norma
Rossetti, who launched an Italian sex toy e-commerce website this
year, said Friday she complied immediately with the order. But she
defended the so-called "Tree of Pleasure" saying the objects chosen
were "elegant" and not obviously X-rated, and that her goal is to
break down taboos.
Sex shop
owner, Norma Rossetti, said she had removed the tree but had
initially put it up to try and make sex toys "completely normal
everyday objects."