RailThe business is Sacks on the Square, a popular thrift shop on Fourth Street that raises money for both Face to Face/Sonoma County AIDS Network and Memorial Hospice. The display in the front window, created to coincide with recent Gay Pride observances, featured a mannequin of a woman seated on the edge of a double bed sprinkled with condoms and surrounded by fleshy Robert Mapplethorpe photos.
Passersby found that at least curious, but what bothered some was that the mannequin’s wrist was handcuffed to the rails of the footboard. Maybe the cuffs were meant to be kinky or a social commentary, but especially with the locked-away and serially abused Jaycee Lee Dugard so much in the news right now, some of the people halted in their tracks by the display found it offensive.
Some told store manager Richard Chole so. Wednesday morning, the mannequin sat still on the bed but the condoms were gone and she’d been unshackled.
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