The extracurricular work activities of three female Johns Hopkins University students apparently include stripping down to their bras to promote a sex-toy shop they work at during an event billed as “family-friendly.”
And before we go any further – sorry, folks – no photos available.
Anyway – where were we? Oh yes. The event aims to pay homage to the working class women of 1960s Baltimore, where festivalgoers don their best bee-hive hairdos and cat-eye glasses. Almost a “slice of Americana,” as an article in The Baltimore Sun put it.
But “stretching the parameters of a wholesome HonFest, three women on The Avenue stripped down to their bras and leotards Saturday to promote Sugar, a nearby sex-toy shop,” the Sun reported.
In the booth behind them, a banner said, “Stirring up raw passion.” But festival organizer Denise Whiting asked the women at the Sugar booth, all students at Johns Hopkins University, to put their clothes back on.
“We have a more conservative definition of ‘street legal,’ said Whiting, owner of Cafe Hon and the boutique store HONtown. “It’s a family-friendly festival.”For her part, Sugar owner Jacq Jones said that while she had asked the women to promote the store, she did not ask them to take off any clothes and did not know it had happened until afterward. She said she did not condone their actions.
HonFest, an annual homage to women with high hair, was almost a slice of Americana, except for the occasional guy in hot pants and a beehive hairdo sashaying along West 36th Street.
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