[h2 id="a170344"][font style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Verdana;" size="2"]Geeez, who thinks this stuff up? I see few pairs being bought. High-tech shoes for hookers.[/font]
[/h2][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][h2 id="a170344"] [/h2][h2 id="a170344"]The Aphrodite Project -
[/h2] [img alt="2006_04_28_platform.jpg" src="vny!://www.fleshbot.com/images/2006/04/2006_04_28_platform.jpg" height="100" width="150"] No wispy Venuses on the half shell here; instead, The Aphrodite Project takes as its point of departure the relationship between contemporary sex worker culture and the ancient cult of the prostitute-as-goddess: "This sacred prostitution was intrinsically tied to religion, ritual and public policy and was seen as a social service and legitimate commerce." What that somehow translates to is a "series of new media artworks", the first of which is a pair of electronically enhanced platform shoes designed to both protect and empower the women who wear them: [/p] [blockquote]"The Aphrodite platform shoes will have an alarm system, which emits a piercing noise to scare off attackers. The shoes are also outfitted with a GPS receiver and an emergency button that relays both the prostitute's location and a silent alarm signal to public emergency services. Where there are problematic relations with law enforcement, the shoes will relay the signal to sex workers' rights groups."[/blockquote] Sure, it's nothing an old-fashioned can of mace and a pocket airhorn couldn't accomplish, but hey—this is [em]art[/em], remember?[/p][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"] [a href="vny!://www.fleshbot.com/sex/art/the-aphrodite-project-170344.php"]vny!://www.fleshbot.com/sex/art/the-aphrodite-project-170344.php[/a]
