What do you see when you look at this watch? Simply squiggles and lines? Or something a bit more x-rated?
There appear to be two camps on a recent Mumsnet thread, where one eagle-eyed poster shared their shock at the penises and vaginas on a Swatch watch design.
The design was spotted by one user’s daughter, who promptly posted it in a conversation titled ‘Would you wear it?’
In the post, she said, ‘Darling daughter – fortunately adult – was browsing the Swatch watches site and was looking at their pages of art where you can choose a section of a design or Old Master to have as the design on your watchstrap.’
‘Great idea. Not sure about this ‘art’ design though. Would you wear it?’
Although many people laughed at the pattern, which Swatch describe on their website as ‘a cheeky project which provides fun through thumbnail sketches of handdrawn female and male privates’, some didn’t even see the privates whatsoever.
One commenter claimed ‘What am I missing? Can just see swirls and lines!’
Many others said they had to zoom in before understanding the genital nature of the design, with first impressions seeming like everything from liquorice allsorts to a ‘dotty pattern’.
There was also the issue that some people were struggling with the anatomy of it all, as one person claimed ‘I’m worried, I don’t even recognise some of the parts!’ For posterity, there’s anuses, penises, vaginas, and breasts, in all their pastel glory.
The conversation then turned to whether or not this pattern was ‘suitable’, with the general consensus being that cartoon penises really aren’t anything to worry about from a child protection point of view; particularly when they’re so indistinguishable from lines and dots.
The watch costs £97, and is part of a collaboration between Swatch and the University of Art & Design in Lausanne.
You can change the design about when ordering, offering you the chance to favour any body parts you wish for your timepiece.
Whether you’d wear it though, that’s the real question.
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/19/can-spot-penis-vagina-drawings-watch-people-see-swirls-dots-10946407/
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