Mbak Rita

 Something surely went so wrong, I felt so sick and having nausea yesterday after reading Masseuses Say They’re Unbothered by Padlocked Pants, an article in The Jakarta Post.  As you know, the resort city in East Java, (m)Batu, has pioneered a padlocked pant for female masseuse, to avoid the possibility of genital contact with her (mostly) male costumers. 

Sexual encounter between masseuses and their clients in the massage parlour is considered illegal here. But it happens frequently too. What silly is, instead of enforcing the law or coming up with new hi tech monitoring system, the gov’t chose to simply move back into Dark Age!

To “imprison” the female genital when the “owner” was not around to keep his eye was known centuries ago, the inhuman practice that thankfully has been vanished for a civilized reason. And suddenly, today, about a hundred years after our very own founding grandmothers paraded their bravery to the Indonesian very first female national meeting “Konggres Perempoean Indonesia” in 1928, established a perfect example for their unborn children, you and me today, how  to behave as civilized citizens; by speaking up, having participatation in public domain, and never let the authority telling you stupid stuff just because you are a woman, I had to read that very annoying article. Surely the pride given by those heroines seemed to end up in deaf ear in mBatu resorts…   But the worst part was the reaction of the victims, those female masseuses who said that they preferred being locked like that. Honey, what they have actually done to you?

 Photo : Venus lock,taken from Intisari Magazine