This is an excellent post... I sure wouldn't want my grandchildren to be looking at that kind of publicity...
Peace and Love...
what is this world coming to?
Calvin Klein Billboard Ad Features Semi-Nude Threesome: Should Calvin Klein be sued?
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2009/06/15 23:34:37
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Calvin Klein's New York billboard ad features a steamy threesome between two semi-nude guys and one girl. But Calvin Klein, which has featured a multitude of explicit billboard and television ads, is under fire for the sexy billboard in Manhattan.
The American Family Association is appalled by the steamy threesome between the Calvin Klein models. Randy Sharp of the American Family Association stated that "[Calvin Klein] has a moral obligation to... display their product in an appropriate manner, especially in a public venue where you have thousands of thousands of children who will see [the] ad."
Calvin Klein has a long history of racy billboard and television ads that often get pulled. So, should Calvin Klein be sued, be forced to remove the New York ad, or should conservatives get over it and applaud Calvin Klein for good marketing?
The American Family Association is appalled by the steamy threesome between the Calvin Klein models. Randy Sharp of the American Family Association stated that "[Calvin Klein] has a moral obligation to... display their product in an appropriate manner, especially in a public venue where you have thousands of thousands of children who will see [the] ad."
Calvin Klein has a long history of racy billboard and television ads that often get pulled. So, should Calvin Klein be sued, be forced to remove the New York ad, or should conservatives get over it and applaud Calvin Klein for good marketing?
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Barefoot Peace and Love∞ijm... 2009/06/15 23:39:50
or maybe uptight people are just very loud and annoying
hmmn, which could it be
but that isn't my reason for commenting, i just wanted to say, mostly to males, but i'm not saying the female model would have liked it any less but
how good would it be to have been a modlel in that?
BAHA
**edit**
except for the guy sittig up on the couch, if you look at his leg, he's been waxed
ha
hahahaaa
i mean you wouldn't want a hairy legged model, even if it was a man
but i don't think many SH men want to have their legs waxed...
I think that woman definitely needed to be wearing a shirt. I didn't notice that earlier. public indecency-pull this add.
Who would sue them any way? A normal person? A company? WHO? I really don't care who they are. They are just money hungery people.
Ratha den dat I luv Calvin Klein =)
What does it say about the people in the picture? How do you relate to them? Subliminal Huh?
Sounds like Calvin Klein knows exactly what they are doing.
Of course, that doesn't mean they can't be sued, should be left alone, or shouldn't be forced to remove the sign.
If concerned citizens want to sue, then they should sue.
And let the courts decide.
Meanwhile, this will only mean continued mad publicity for Calvin Klein, validating their ad strategy. Either way, Calvin Klein wins. So, once again...
Good marketing...sometimes looks like this...
Sex sells. Controversy sells. And racy, risque advertising daring to walk the line between "sexy" and "soft porn" has both.
I'm not here as an apologist for Calvin Klein trying to defend them. Just making the point that their ad, whatever anyone thinks of it personally, works as good marketing. And, in fact, I also stated that the ad's success as good marketing "doesn't mean they can't be sued, should be left alone, or shouldn't be forced to remove the sign" (see the post you responded to, above). That's why I didn't select "Calvin Klein's New York billboard is just good marketing; leave Calvin Klein alone..." That option contained the phrase, "leave Calvin Klein alone."
C.K. has been doing it for years.
But in a larger context, this situation is bigger than America, and bigger than than Gen X or Gen Y, bigger than the modern industrial era. Salacious material, soft and borderline acceptable, as well as the other stuff, goes back to the Egyptians. And probably a lot farther back than that. As soon as the first "moving pictures" were made, there immediately followed the birth of video porn.
You have the power individually, of course, to say, "I'm not going to be exploited any more!" And should exercise that power if you feel like it. And no doubt others will, too. But, as you can see, plenty of folk will still pay attention to such marketing, keeping the names of those exploitative brands on most people's lips. The proof? Here you and I are, talking about Calvin Klein. It has worked again. : )
It's the human condition. The Egyptians were part of...""
But in a larger context, this situation is bigger than America, and bigger than than Gen X or Gen Y, bigger than the modern industrial era. Salacious material, soft and borderline acceptable, as well as the other stuff, goes back to the Egyptians. And probably a lot farther back than that. As soon as the first "moving pictures" were made, there immediately followed the birth of video porn.
You have the power individually, of course, to say, "I'm not going to be exploited any more!" And should exercise that power if you feel like it. And no doubt others will, too. But, as you can see, plenty of folk will still pay attention to such marketing, keeping the names of those exploitative brands on most people's lips. The proof? Here you and I are, talking about Calvin Klein. It has worked again. : )
It's the human condition. The Egyptians were part of it, and so are we. Only a change in the fundamental nature of human beings could make this phenomenon -- aka "sex sells" -- go away.
Scary stuff! We are a wash in advertising and social engineering!
Conservative: disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
Yep, limiting change is totally the same thing as not liking porn in public venues.
Secondly, what the hell kid do you know sneaking porn into school? They would have to be a failtastic loser. (Not to mention stupid.) School is for learning, not jacking off, skuzzbags.
Remember, this is ADVERTISING not art. The goal is to create traffic in the stores.
Not an appreciation for creativity and beauty.
Art is about truth; Advertising is about lies.