Invitation
to Flirt
By Col. Riaz Jafri
(Retd)
Westridge, Rawalpindi
On the front page of a leading newspaper appeared
a king size quarter page ad showing a sensually
provocative mod girl in pyjamas chatting on a
lap top while the text of the ad reads “----
so you can make more friends all day all night”,
then “FLIRT” is written in a big bold
suggestive font, and the ad concludes with, “Now
you literally won’t be able to sleep!”.
What is going on here -- make friends all day
all night --- FLIRT --- literally won’t
be able to sleep?! Is it not an attempt to waylay
our young ones? Could there be anything more inviting
for our teenagers to indulge in outright flirtation?
I am no obscurantist; on the contrary, a widely
travelled and quite enlightened moderate, but
even I find it hard and repulsive to allow a paper
in my house with an ad promoting such permissiveness.
Will someone take a notice of it, please?
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