Would You Consider This Image To Be Vulgar?
Or offensive and degrading to women?
Because it seems that that was the opinion of the Institute for Advertising Self-Discipline (IAP) — aka Italy’s advertising watchdog — when they decided to ban it. Frankly, we’re a bit confused. Cause, uh, we’d be more likely to consider it hot. But then, we always had a few issues we never really resolved…
[Via FabSugar]
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i plan on plagiarizing this immediately.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:06 amThat’s sort of a tough one. On one hand, yes, I see the vulgar and misogynistic intent of the image. The message of the photo is more or less, “suck it, bitch.” On the other hand, it’s pretty much in line with the standards of current fashion advertising and fashion photography (see: most of W magazine’s last three issues worth of fashion spreads; all of Tom Ford’s advertisements in the past year), so I’m a little perplexed why this one in particular is being made an example.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pmPS: Ha ha, I see this for Tom Ford also. I’m SHOCKED, simply shocked!!!
April 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pmOk… I truelly recomend that nobody show this photo for the kids… but nowdays… the society are so over from this kind of imagine.. .that could be consider normal…
Not vulgar… just HOT! (hehehe)
April 24th, 2008 at 3:23 pmi don’t know that it’s any worse than other stuff, but i don’t think it’s hot, and it does ick me out because i’ve had fingers forced into my mouth and it’s not cool.
i’m not saying it should be banned, but yuck.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:25 pmIt doesn’t look like anything *forced*. She’s biting the finger. If it *did* look forced, agreed, that’d be a bad thing… but she’s got her eyes closed; and it looks like she could take the finger right off with those lovely teeth in a moment of passion… that adds a sense of danger & shows her power as well as his.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:49 am= sexy!
It looks consenual, which is the important part to me. She’s not having a finger forced down her throat, and he’s not having his finger forcefully ‘taken’.
I think they probably just object to the fact this says ‘BLOWJOBS’ not very subtly. But only to people who associate slender pink objects with penises - so the IAP have something to answer on that one.
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