Perth brothel told to remove ad because of the placement of a feather boa

Mackenzies of Perth captured on Google Street View

Outdoor ads for escort company Mackenzies of Perth have fallen foul of the ad watchdog over the positioning of a feather boa between the woman’s legs in one of the ads which the board ruled was “exploitative and degrading”.

The outdoor ads featured two different images of women in lingerie placed in upper windows of a building. In one of the images the woman is on all fours looking at the camera with her head titled to one side while the other is of a woman on her back with her bottom raised and a feather boa between her legs.

A complaint to the Ad Standards Board (ASB) described the ads as “pornography displayed so publicly on the major highway” adding they could be seen by children and: “I wholeheartedly object to the message of woman as sex objects.