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The Straight Story

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Mon Mar 31, 2014, 03:23 PM Mar 2014

French comic blasted over 'air sex' stunt [View all]

French comic blasted over 'air sex' stunt

Online anger continued to build on Monday against a French comic who used visual perspective tricks to make a video of him having "air sex" with unsuspecting women in public.

A French comic may have intended his ‘air sex’ video as a joke, but it's been widely rebuked online for glorifying "rape culture".

In the clip titled ‘Free sex’, which has racked up 3.3 million views in a matter of days, French comic Rémi Gaillard uses visual perspective pranks to make it look like he is having sex with unsuspecting women in public.

The reaction has been swift and firmly negative from many observers.

Writer Dom Bochel Guégan wrote on the website of French magazine Nouvel Observateur that the video is a “trivialization of the sexual violence of which we have been or will be one day the victim of.”

http://www.thelocal.fr/20140331/french-comic-draws-swift-rebuke-over-air-sex-clip

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