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Tom Ford Gives Italy the Finger, Italy Fingers Back

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FINGER BLAST Ford ad
The Italian Advertising Institute (IAA) has banned the above ad for Tom Ford sunglasses from the country. (Whoops! It's already run in three women's mags there.) It didn't harp on other shots in the series—one with a naked woman clutching the junk of a man in a suit and another with a naked woman ironing while a man sits smoking a cigar nearby. The IAA called the finger pic "sexually implicit," harping on its "explicit and provocative character," and saying the image "goes beyond acceptable limits for advertising aimed at the general public." It could have been a lot grodier. [AP via Breitbart]

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So a naked woman grabbing on a man's crank shaft is not "sexually implicit" but a man with his middle finger in a chicks mouth is? Uh.... you lost me? A naked woman with her hand all over a man crotch area doesn't really lend a whole lot to the imagination. Look at it in the way a small child might see these two ads, a child of 5 or younger. A naked woman will draw their attention and leave them with a few questions that can not be so easily explained away. A picture with a finger in a woman's mouth, while the child may still have questions the ad won't be nearly as eye catching and could be easily explained with grace. Which would you be comfortable explaining to your child, if they saw either one of the ads?

Posted by: Lee_Harvey on April 15, 2008 6:48 PM

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