Friday 16 January 2009

Inappropriate "Musical Performance"

300 men watch as a young girl removes her clothes, covers herself in condensed milk, approaches the ravenous audience and allows those in the front row to touch her whilst she puts a vibrator in their mouths.

This is not a porn film, but a Christmas treat for the 300 inmates of Picassent prison, some of whom are serving sentences for gender-based violence and sexual assault. Whilst several female prison guards who were present in the room for the “musical performance” left in disgust, reportedly feeling “totally degraded”, the sub-director of prisoner treatment calmly watched the show, apparently unaware that such a performance was perhaps more than a little inappropriate.

The Spanish Prison Guards Union has launched a complaint calling for the resignation of the prison’s director, notification of how much the stripper was paid (with public funds), and for a comment from the Ministry of Equality. I´ve often heard of prisons being a school for rapists, but this is unbelievable!