Saturday, June 18, 2005
A giant dominatrix teddy bear wearing a leather mask and brandishing hand-cuffs has been banned from sober Zurich's street display of man-sized model bears, the project's artistic director said Tuesday. While tourists pose for snaps next to a brightly-painted and benign array of models such as the 'schoolteacher bear' and the 'skier bear,' 'Baervers' -- a pun on the German for perverse -- has been deemed too steamy for the financial capital's streets. The bear appears here in a yard in Zurich, May 24, 2005. (Sebastian Derungs/Reuters)
