Unveiled: First Turkish Woman Poses for German Playboy

[High_Gravity]

Unveiled: First Turkish Woman Poses for German Playboy

Germany's ongoing struggle with integration, usually carried out with grim zeal and intellectual debates, experienced a surprisingly sensual turn last week.

The appearance of Turkish-German actress Sila Sahin's attractive, naked body in the May issue of Playboy magazine shows how young women with immigrant backgrounds can rid themselves of religious and cultural constraints, without needing to cite statistics or elaborate arguments provided by integration experts.

It's usually no longer a big deal when a celebrity or starlet takes off her clothes for the men's magazine. The unrelenting overexposure to sexually explicit images in the media, advertisements and the Internet has made public nudity so socially acceptable that we barely take notice.

But the 25-year-old Sahin, who plays "Ayala" in the RTL German soap opera "Good Times, Bad Times" (Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten/ GZSZ) managed to link her public exposure to the debate over a central socio-political issue: that young Muslim—in this case, Turkish — women are not allowed to make the same kind of decisions over their own lives and bodies that the daughters of the sexually revealing majority have been able to make for some time.

"For me, these pictures are an act of liberation from the cultural constraints of my childhood," says Sahin. "I have tried to please everybody for too long. With these images I want to show young Turkish women that it is OK to live the way they are; that it is not cheap to show skin; that you should pursue your goals instead of bowing down to others."

Playboy could use the PR

It may very well be that the first appearance of a Turkish woman on the cover of the German Playboy is most of all a welcome opportunity for the glossy magazine, which could use the immigration debate to boost its somewhat out-of-date image.

And the still relatively unknown Sahin was admittedly presented with a PR opportunity to stick out of the daily host of nudes by fashioning herself as a brave trailblazer for emancipation.

Still, her interview in the magazine opens a window into the patronizing situations young Muslim girls and women have to deal with on a daily basis.

Growing up "with a father who is an actor and a very conservative mother, I am not speaking for everyone, but in my case, things were black or white. Sex before marriage was bad, you have to pray every Friday and so on." For a long time she "thought I have to do what the man says."

Purists of female emancipation and cultural critics may sniff at the fact that Sila Sahin sees an act of liberation in posing naked for men who are not primarily interested in intellectual discourse. But the tastefully shot nude photos of the young Turkish woman remind us that the reviled commercialization of the female body that today seems just like an unavoidable part of every day life, played an important role in the history of female emancipation in the Western world.

Read more: Unveiled: First Turkish Woman Poses for German 'Playboy' - TIME

 

[R.D.]

Girls asking to be raped.....


oops, sorry wrong thread

 

[syrenn]

Girls asking to be raped.....


oops, sorry wrong thread

I was going to say the same thing. I guess sunni man thinks she is a slut too.

 

[Mr. H.]

She's purdy.

 

[chanel]

I wonder how many death threats she's gotten. Hope she has body guards.

 

[High_Gravity]

Playboy is actually pretty tame compared to the other magazines she could have posed for like Hustler or Swank, shes a very pretty lady and kudos to her.

 

[martybegan]

ZOMG! SHES SHOWING HER ARMPIT!!!! FATAWA!!!! FATAWA NOW NOW NOW!!!

/nutjob islamic fundie sarcasm.

 

[Sunni Man]

Girls asking to be raped.....


oops, sorry wrong thread

I was going to say the same thing. I guess sunni man thinks she is a slut too.

Any woman who allows nude pictures to be taken of her and published is definitely a slut.

And has no socially redeeming morals or values.

Only the pathetic west would hold this woman up as a role model for other women.

 

[High_Gravity]

Girls asking to be raped.....


oops, sorry wrong thread

I was going to say the same thing. I guess sunni man thinks she is a slut too.

Any woman who allows nude pictures to be taken of her and published is definitely a slut.

And has no socially redeeming morals or values.

Only the pathetic west would hold this woman up as a role model for other women.

Even if she is a slut, so what? there is alot worse things she can be.

 

[editec]

Girls asking to be raped.....


oops, sorry wrong thread

I was going to say the same thing. I guess sunni man thinks she is a slut too.

Any woman who allows nude pictures to be taken of her and published is definitely a slut.

And has no socially redeeming morals or values.

Only the pathetic west would hold this woman up as a role model for other women.

Yeah I expect that a sexy woman must be really scarey for you boys.

My suggestion is that you Islamics misogynists just send us Westerners all your slutty women.

They don't frighten us.

 

[Sallow]

I like pictures of naked women...

Especially pretty naked women.

 

[High_Gravity]

I was going to say the same thing. I guess sunni man thinks she is a slut too.

Any woman who allows nude pictures to be taken of her and published is definitely a slut.

And has no socially redeeming morals or values.

Only the pathetic west would hold this woman up as a role model for other women.

Yeah I expect that a sexy woman must be really scarey for you boys.

My suggestion is that you Islamics misogynists just send us Westerners all your slutty women.

They don't frighten us.

Hell yeah, I'll make room for a couple of them!

 

[Trajan]

Playboy is actually pretty tame compared to the other magazines she could have posed for like Hustler or Swank, shes a very pretty lady and kudos to her.

and you know this how?

 

[High_Gravity]

Playboy is actually pretty tame compared to the other magazines she could have posed for like Hustler or Swank, shes a very pretty lady and kudos to her.

and you know this how?

Umm a friend told me.

 

[martybegan]

Playboy is actually pretty tame compared to the other magazines she could have posed for like Hustler or Swank, shes a very pretty lady and kudos to her.

and you know this how?

Playboy is the diet coke of porn. I'm still shocked its around with teh internets providing all the deviant black trans-sexual midget scat porn one could handle.

 

[Trajan]

good answer, now go shave your palms before work....

 

[Anguille]

I wonder how many death threats she's gotten. Hope she has body guards.

I imagine she's gotten letters of support as well. Not to mention more job offers.

 

[Anguille]

Girls asking to be raped.....


oops, sorry wrong thread

I was going to say the same thing. I guess sunni man thinks she is a slut too.

Any woman who allows nude pictures to be taken of her and published is definitely a slut.

And has no socially redeeming morals or values.

Only the pathetic west would hold this woman up as a role model for other women.

Maybe she's just not ashamed of her beautiful body?

 

[High_Gravity]

I wonder how many death threats she's gotten. Hope she has body guards.

I imagine she's gotten letters of support as well. Not to mention more job offers.

No doubt, hopefully she'll come do Playboy here in the States as well.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Girls asking to be raped.....


oops, sorry wrong thread

I was going to say the same thing. I guess sunni man thinks she is a slut too.

Any woman who allows nude pictures to be taken of her and published is definitely a slut.

And has no socially redeeming morals or values.

Only the pathetic west would hold this woman up as a role model for other women.

No one is holding her up as a "role model" you idiot. Even if you dodn't think wimmen should pose naked, you should at least respect her right to do so. Yeah in 20 years she may regret it, maybe she won't. But in the meantime, it's none of your fuckin' business what she does as long as she doesn't break any laws of Germany. Your outdated Muslim morals have no place there.

Go back to your 8th Century cave and stay there Sunni Man.

EDIT: I'm not defending pornography, I just can't stand SunniMan and his total (probably intentional) misunderstanding of personal freedom and civil liberties that exist in Western societies. No, I wouldn't want my daughter posing for a rag like that but if that girl want's to it's her business and no one else's.