The medical conference, like any other similar initiative, was organized by whoever is in the market: a pharmaceutical company or a company that produces paramedical instruments and "medical" objects.
Palermo, sex toys on display at the Palazzo dei Normanni. The fury of the Ars president: "I report to the judiciary"
The Huffington Post – Published: 25/10/2014
It was only supposed to be a medical conference on women's health. Instead, at the conference banquet, a pharmaceutical company displayed vibrators, creams and silicone spheres in plain sight to stimulate female pleasure. Objects and materials, the organizers now explain, which constitute a therapeutic innovation "to prevent disorders in the pelvic area".
Will be. But the commercial operation was not liked at all by the president of the Sicilian Assembly, Giovanni Ardizzone (UDC) who is now threatening to turn to the judiciary: "We have authorized - he says - only one medical conference with a high scientific profile, while our availability has been abused, creating serious damage to the image of the Sicilian Parliament. No one has ever authorized the display of commercial products”. Intolerable, for the deputy commissioner Paolo Ruggirello, the fact that sex toys were "in everyone's sight, even the tourists who visit the building".
An exhibition of a scientific nature in the context of a congress on "therapeutic innovations in endocrine-gynecological and obstetric clinical practice", but which must have made the eyes of visitors and tenants of the Palazzo roll out, certainly not accustomed to dealing with silicone objects and sex toys in the corridors of the austere building. So, to avoid unnecessary embarrassment and a few mischievous laughs, the quaestors have decided to change the location for the unique exhibition. From the corridors of the Palace to the Sala Rossa. Away from prying eyes.
Sex shop in Parliament, the culprit is being sought: well-studied hoax or…
Provocation, levity or the lucid design of a businessman? Or the intrigue built with an incomparable direction in order to give a devastating publicity to the most important Sicilian institution, the regional Parliament, temple of democracy and special autonomy?
Cutting out a corner of the Norman palace and make it a corner for an impromptu sex shop, of short but intense duration, requires great skill or great stupidity. Either way, it's no small mistake. And the indignation aroused in the representatives of the institution is not enough to close the story and leave the episode at the mercy of hard gossip. Well, it's worth understanding. And to stay inside the news, beyond the inevitable prudence that the "parliamentary" sex shop solicits.
Vibrators, vaginal creams and silicone spheres and much more, useful objects to stimulate the private parts of women on display in the austere rooms of Palazzo dei Normanni are an absolute novelty. The plot that has placed them on a generous shelf refers to a medical conference duly authorized by the president of the Sicilian regional assembly, Giovanni Ardizzone, a very strict and God-fearing man. Had he had the slightest suspicion of the plot, he would have kicked anyone who opened his mouth. When he learned, through a tip to the press, what had happened a few meters from King Roger's room and the Pisan Tower, which houses the President's office, the reaction was as prompt and austere as the Palace: "image damage". And since Ardizzone is a lawyer by profession, announced the possibility of legal action against those who used the Palazzo dei Normanni for the sex shop.
It shouldn't be complicated to trace the perpetrators of the damage, since the medical conference was organized by a company that has its own brand on the market and sells objects that “they take care of the most intimate needs of women”.
So let's rewind the tape. The medical conference, like any other similar initiative, was organized by whoever is in the market: a pharmaceutical company or a company which produces paramedical instruments and “medical” objects.
The extraordinary nature of the event rather concerns the quality of the initiative, described as "a medical-scientific conference on therapeutic innovations in endocrine-gynecological and obstetric clinical practice". Behind this complicated scientific terminology the sex shop would be hidden.
Obviously, that of the president of the regional assembly was not the only reaction. The indignation spread rapidly, arousing smiles and malevolent thoughts, the most frequent (and blasphemous) of which makes the victim of the scam, the regional Parliament, the object of vulgar insinuations. In fact, there are those who argue that the damage to the image could not be invoked for the simple reason that at Palazzo dei Normanni there is never a lack of reasons to be indignant. And therefore crossing the courtroom to punish the ineffable organizers of the sex shop runs the risk of a flop if you run into a magistrate who likes to judge the context rather than the fact.
October 26, 2014 siciliainformazioni.com
