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Hardcore teddy banned from Zurich's bear parade
A giant dominatrix teddy bear wearing a leather mask and brandishing
hand-cuffs has been banned from sober Zurich's street display of man-sized model
bears, the project's artistic director said Tuesday.
"This bear is perverse, dominatrix and hardcore. We had to ban it because of the children," Beat Seeberger-Quin, the project's art director, told Reuters. The offending bear, which sports bright red lipstick, a corset and thigh-length leather boots, stands atop a pedestal bearing the words "first class service." Some 600 teddies, variously decorated by artists, stud the streets of Zurich and its airport in the "Teddy-Summer" project. The controversial model had been allocated a place near Zurich's Paradeplatz, home to Switzerland's top banks such as Credit Suisse and UBS, before Seeberger-Quin spotted the final design and decided to ban it. The dominatrix bear's creators now seek a private home for their sadomasochist teddy. At least "Baervers" will not face the same hazards as his publicly-displayed peers, some of which have been vandalized or even kidnapped. "Two or three of the bears have been splashed with
paint, and one bear -- a nice small bear wearing a little dress -- has been
stolen," Seeberger-Quin said.
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