India has an extremely conservative attitude towards pornography and nudity – indeed, kissing is banned from Bollywood films, while couples who show affection in public are largely scorned and sometimes even spat upon and attacked. I haven't told anything to my mother, but I think I will visit her and tell her that she has to accept me the way I am, Chopra, 28, added. She added that she could not miss the opportunity of posing nude for the world's most established adult magazine.” I have become the first Indian to pose naked for Playboy and nobody can take away that achievement from me.” It is not an easy task to be nude in front of the camera and look good at the same time, she told BBC. Isn't it an irony that on the one side as common women strive hard to safeguard their modesty, the Sherlyn Chopras encourage voyeurism?Ĭhopra reportedly asked Playboy in writing if she could appear in the magazine and they responded in the affirmative immediately. India is not only battling an epidemic of sex crimes against women, but also finding it increasingly difficult to comfortably integrate western moral standards with Indian traditions in an increasingly globalized world.Īt a time when innocent women across the nation from Gujarat to Guwahati have been subjected to sexual abuse and humiliation, one wonders if Sherlyn Chopra's pictures wound a woman's integrity, wrote a female blogger named Gayatri Sankar. Bollywood actress Sherlyn Chopra will become the first Indian woman to pose nude in Playboy magazine.Ĭhopra, whose naked body will grace the November 2012 issue of Hugh Hefner’s iconic publication, has come under attack from both Indian women’s rights activists, as well as social conservatives who condemn pornography as a western ill.
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