Colonial Harem

Reading about the Colonial Harem system got me in a very angry mood. Reading, I believe in Lockman's book, about the postcards and photographs disgusted me to no end. I started to assume the actions of the media and photography on Harems as making them unveil themselves, if not physically, in other ways, such as making them like models and making them this exotic being for everyone to just look at and admire as if they were for entertainment purely for ones eyes and attraction. The postcards, that I also saw someone else mention in their blog, irritated me to think about because I was imagining what that must do to the person on the card. Nowadays you can pick up a postcard of a girl in a bikini as a vacation sight and right to a friend back home on it if you really wanted to, but in all honesty, what does that prove? That you simply want to degrade someone and send them through the mail as if they are almost like your special gift to someone? The entire idea upon photography and painting Harems to give off a certain idea is what really aggravated me, and from what I read, I felt as though it was extremely obvious that they had absolutely no right in doing it, and once photography became involved and the photographers could control their "artwork" more, it became an even worse situation.