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T voyeurs: Smile for the camera, Charlie

  February 03, 2012

The creators of BostonTCrush.com seem to understand that their concept is a little intrusive. But they’re still encouraging strangers to take snapshots of attractive but unsuspecting men on the T and upload them to the site, where the public is free to ooh and aah at them. Some unwitting models are surely flattered, yet the coarser imitators that will surely follow could make a subway ride an annoyance to riders, of either sex, who don’t want to be critiqued or e-catcalled during their commutes.

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