The wonderful country of Italia has decided to issue its own version of the "moral police" or more famously known as "Fati Comando" in Iran to declare a ban on women wearing mini skirts and low rise jeans to other clothing seen as sexy.  The irony to it all is that young people in places like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, and other cultrally repressive countries have risked their lives for such a simple freedom. 

You know the world is spinning in the wrong direction when a country so sexually free as Italia with its nude and topless beaches, to its sexual energy and displays of romance that exert themselves even from the tiny "strade" that lead to the Pointe Vecchio is issuing a restriction morality code on clothes. 

From one viewpoint, yes, we can say that at least in Iran and other Arab cultures where wearing skimpy mini skirts is taboo in the cultural, we can accept it if those regims are against their women wearing those clothes for the sake of the argument that it is culturally based. 



However, for a country that is as sexually vibrant as Italia to suddent redress in this way is a sign that we should all be worried.  The Italians of the great Renaissance wanted to be "free" in every humanly way possible to avoid any future dark ages.  It seems that their dreams are coming to an end.

It is ironic that in the United States such great attention is always given to how women in Iran and Saudi Arabia can not wear skirts.  I think it should be of greater alarm that a place such as Italia is even thinking of allowing a local mayor to exert such power because at COEXISTNECE, we believe in the freedom of being free on a individual level. 

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