Czech MPs Pose For Sexy Calendar (The Women Only, Of Course)

I understand that sex sells. I get it, I really do.

But is it necessary (not to mention appropriate) for women in politics to make a provocative calendar to get public support?

The Czech republic has just published a calendar for 2011 of female MPs to “draw attention to the fact that we have women in politics”.

They are “wearing little in the way of clothing in a series of images that dispatch the traditional image of staid and serious parliamentarians.” There are pictures of women in the bath tub, women sprawled on beds with short robes, women with bedroom eyes, and women in thigh-high boots and lingerie (see some of the pictures here).

I know that women can be politicians and attractive and sexy at the same time.

And I know that one aspect of feminism is that women should be proud of their sexiness.

But I still think that this is stooping to an unnecessary level to draw attention to themselves. Surely if they are good politicians they will be voted for regardless of how they look in lingerie. In fact, they are already elected MPs, so there doesn’t seem to be much point to this beyond exhibitionism.

I probably would still vote for these women if they were my favourite in the election race, but I certainly would lose a bit of respect for them. Is this small-minded of me?

There are 44 female MPs which is the most they have ever had. But only six posed for the calendar.

So when you get down to it, it looks like either the majority of these women agree with me, or they are just not model material.