VICTORIA HAS NO SECRETS

The Victoria's Secret photo-spread (Sun Times, Oct 27) is more than a news report. This is really an entire sociology course...!

Where else can you and your kids watch together what was once called pornography now called marketing...? Where else can you find the mass magic that can convince size 18s they can look like this....? Where else can the female ego then go to be so totally devastated...? Where else can you find a hierarchy of male executives deciding what America's women should wear...? Where else can you find women being paid to perpetuate the objectification of their gender both on TV and Michigan Avenue...?

Oh, and where else can you study the silver stake being plunged into the last remnants of America's old Puritanical vampire...? In 17th C Boston, these beauties would have probably found themselves at the wrong end of a hangman's noose, and now they're given the city's best seats!

What completes the fascinating sociological aspects to this full-page story is the tell-tale fact a man not a woman did the reporting. You don't have to be a Puritan to wonder if that doesn't help prove what a lot of folks have always said -- Victoria's Secrets are more for the male than the female viewer. My evidence? I never miss a commercial!