'50 Shades Of Grey' Barbie Sex Shop Display Features Dolls In Explicit BDSM Poses

It looks like Barbie's been reading "Fifty Shades of Grey."

A sexually explicit window display featuring Barbie and Ken in BDSM poses is turning heads in a suburb of Ottawa, Canada, this week, the Ottawa Sun reports.

Mel Lockhart, store manager for Wicked Wanda's Adult Emporium, said she and her staff posed the iconic dolls in scenes inspired by E.L. James' best-selling erotic trilogy.

The salacious saga -- with its wealthy bachelor, virginal ingenue and BDSM themes -- has inspired a host of products, including a cookbook, a music album, makeup, jewelry, and, of course, sex toys. The series' overtly sexual content has even caught the attention of Christian conservative Pat Robertson.

In the case of the Wicked Wanda dispay, Ken and Barbie, while never actually displayed in their full, nude plastic glory, are shown engaged in whipping, bondage and oral and anal sex. It as, according to the Ottawa Sun's Denis Armstrong, about as "raunchy and hard core as doll play can get."

Not surprisingly, not everyone is a fan of the dolls' fetish voyeurism.

?I think it?s overstepped the bounds of propriety,? Shannon Lee Manion, who lives near the store, told the Ottawa Citizen. Manion, who said she was "shocked" by the display, also complained to the local business association.

But Portia Young, an employee at the sex shop, said that many people had voiced approval of the display.

?Our general response from the public has been positive,? Young told the outlet. ?Most people are highly amused, and many have stopped in just to say how much they appreciated it.

And manager Lockhart said she sees no reason to take down the dolls.

?If this person had a legitimate complaint about the window, they would come into the store and complain,? she told Metro Ottawa. ?We are a bondage store. And if anybody actually lodged a complaint into the store that has been in the surrounding area, I would talk to the owner and we would think of another way to do the window.?

Of course, this is far from the first time Mattel's famous couple have been sexualized. In June, a photo series titled "In The Dollhouse" depicted a possible "dark side" of the couple's life together.

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