Bras N Things censured by ad watchdog for Playboy lingerie in-store video
An in-store video ad for Bras N Things Playboy lingerie has been banned by the ad watchdog for not treating the issue of sex, sexuality and nudity with sensitivity.
The video – similar to the video shown in this post – featured a woman wearing different styles of Playboy-branded lingerie and the video camera moving over the model’s body to highlight the details on the lingerie. The complained about video had no audio.
A complaint to the Ads Standard Board suggested the ad was “amateur porn”.
It is also worth noting that the ASB has no jurisdiction nor capacity to enforce in an in store environment.
I’m looking forward to Wicked Campers embedding this on the side of their van.
So this would be porn for women given that they are the customers in a Bras N Things store?
The complaint contained one reference to the effect that it was like a very amateur porn movie; now that has to be discernment, especially to refine it to “Very amateur” obviously a deep appreciation of the various levels of porn production there.
Another has it “vulgar, and unsuitable for the young” I suggest that brassieres are, and lingerie in general is, unsuitable for the young, and if the reference is to the very young, then sex, sexuality and the products advertised, are all unsuitable.
It seems that many people have become addicted to protesting about the bleeding obvious, I remember going shopping with my Mother in the 1950s, and looking, with some curiosity, and a slightly invigorating and even excited pleasure, at the women’s stockings pulled tightly onto clear plastic model legs that stood side by side on the counters, and at the girdled and brassiered models in painted plaster with glass eyes and real hair wigs. It was all just as inappropriate to me at that age around (9), but I have never regretted seeing them, or the slightly guilty thrill that they gave me.
I am discussed you are advertising almost porn on the TV.
Get real where is the company morals.
Put the underwear on coat hangers.
No one should have to put up with viewing almost naked women on the TV. Get the ads off our TV
It’s an advertisement for lingerie with the model wearing lingerie, I honestly don’t see the issue. Playboy lingerie is sexy, if you’re buying it you probably want to feel sexy as the lady in the ad appears to be feeling.
She’s not making oscine gestures or anything, there’s no sex, there’s not even another person.
Women can still be sexy sexual beings without it being an excuse to objectify them.