Animal rights campaigners People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will go wild later this year — with a pornography website.
PETA has long deployed nearly-nude street activists to promote its campaign against the wearing of leather, fur, or make-up tested on animals.
But a sex site called peta.xxx, due to be launched sometime between November and December, will finally show campaigners in their entire natural glory, says associate director of campaigns Lindsay Rajit.
“We get as naked as we’re able to legally. In most cities and states that means you still have to wear pasties and some coverage on the bottom,” Rajit explained. “With the triple-x domain you won’t have those limitations.”
However, viewers will also be confronted by the naked truth of cruelty to animals, Rajit added.
“As soon as people land on the site they’ll see some tantalizing images ... But we will also have graphic images that people are not necessarily looking for.”
PETA activists, not porn artists, will feature on the site “because they want to do everything they can to help the animals,” Rajit said.
She dismissed criticism that PETA exploits women while trying to save animals.
“We think every man and woman has every right to use their voice, their pen, their body to help the animals.”
(AFP)
美國動物權利團體「人道對待動物」（PETA）將在今年所剩的這幾個月內，展現野性之美─成立一個色情網站。
PETA已長期投入分派社會運動參與者，全身近乎赤裸走上街頭，以宣揚其反對穿動物皮、毛，或是以動物作為化妝品測試的理念。
發起這些運動的副總召琳賽‧拉吉特表示，一個即將在十一月與十二月間開張的性網站peta.xxx，終究將看到這些從事社會運動的人，一絲不掛回歸身體的自然原貌。
拉吉特解釋說：「我們盡可能在合法的最大尺度下裸身。對大多數城市與州來說，意即你仍要貼上胸貼，並且下面也要有些遮掩。」她說：「但若是在三個x的（色情專屬）網域，你將不受那些限制。」
拉吉特補充說，然而觀賞者也將勢必面對虐待動物的赤裸真相。
她表示：「一但進入該網站，人們將會看到一些撩人的圖像…但我們也將有一些圖表圖像，不見得是人們所欲探尋的。」
拉吉特說，PETA社會運動參與者，而非色情藝術家，將會在該網站上，以「因為他們要盡其所能幫助動物」的主題現身。
外界批評PETA在試圖拯救動物之際剝削女性，但她對該批評置之不理。
她說：「我們相信每位男性與女性都有其一切權利，去發言、訴諸文字，以及用自己的身體來幫助動物。」
（法新社／翻譯：林亞蒂）
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