The campaign against men selling women's underwear

The relativity of embarrassment displays all its flesh when one compares the kind of situations (usually involved with buying and fitting) in "Embarrassing Bra Stories" — "You’ll have to search pretty hard to find a woman who doesn’t have one or two embarrassing bra stories to tell."— with what women have to put up with in Saudi Arabia.

In a campaign now a year old and entering its second phase, women in KSA are trying to get a law that's finally on the books, actually implemented.

"We are supposedly the most conservative nation in the world and yet women here divulge their bra and undie sizes and colors to strange men on a regular basis. The contradiction is in the fact that we are supposedly the most conservative nation in the world and yet women here divulge their bra and undie sizes and colors to strange men on a regular basis. I have been to many countries, European, Arab…etc and I have yet to come across a lingerie shop or even section of a department store where a man is employed to help customers. Why is this? Because common decency and personal comfort dictate that the majority of women would much rather discuss and buy their underwear from another woman. This very simple fact somehow flew over our muttawas’ heads or they just felt that the oppression of women is more important than preserving a woman’s modesty. The minister of Labour, Dr. Al Qusaibi, attempted to tackle this issue by issuing a new law that only women were to be employed at lingerie shops. This was supposed to be effective in 2006. However powerful people behind the scenes have been able to delay its implementation. Why would they do that? Well it’s due to a multiple number of reasons.

Read all about them, and the campaign, on one of the best blogs on the web, Eman Al Nafjan's Saudiwoman's Weblog.