A new J.Crew ad showing a mom painting her son's toenails pink has caused a stir. What do you think?
"Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon." That's the quote, accompanied by a photo of J.Crew's creative director, Jenna Lyons, applying pink polish to 5-year-old son Beckett's toenails, that's caused a firestorm of cultural controversy and had critics crying "transgendered child propaganda." We're pretty sure the minds behind the catalog ad thought the toenail painting was just a cute mother-son activity to highlight on their "Saturday with Jenna" page. Prominent conservatives thought otherwise.
While airing a Tim Tebow-starring anti-abortion ad, CBS has rejected Mancrunch.com's spot.
Super Bowl XLIV is just around the corner and suddenly memories of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl nipple slip and Prince's phallic guitar posturing seem like good old-fashioned American entertainment. This year the great Super Bowl ads race has turned political in a heated face-off of right- and left-wing media.
The media is a all a bustle about a German safe sex advertisement depicting a woman getting banged by Adolf Hitler. The minute-long advertisement starts with two lustful things ripping each others clothes off and after a few passionate thrusts the man lifts his head and reveals a Hitler face. The ominous German phrase: Aids Ist Ein Massenmorder (translation: AIDS is a mass murderer) is then splashed across the screen. Will Hitler's face make you wear condoms?
Old men and "O" faces. Are guys finally being objectified in advertising?
Davidoff cigars released a new advertising campaign that features men with blissed-out "O" faces and a cursive quote that reads "Every Man Has A D-spot." Is the advertising world finally learning how to objectify men with orgasms and O-faces?
The Mail Online thinks so, but we think they might be overreacting.
The Mail Online states that abortion clinic ads are "sexy," that they "encourage promiscuity," and that they "send the wrong message to women" (conveniently, they don't mention men). Among these "wrong messages": that "sex is fine."
Research into how men and women respond to sexual messages.
Historically, researchers have found women to be turned off by racy ads showing excessive nudity and sexual language. New experiments are showing, though, that the problem for advertisers may not be that sex doesn't sell to women, but rather that women don't often agree with the way sex is portrayed.
If rubber mammals and extra-marital sex aren’t selling, what is?
When the Bloodhound Gang dutifully clarified "You and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals," in their ode to the Discovery Channel, they may have been calling out to the wrong network. After all, it was the NFL that recently rejected The Ashley Madison Agency’s Super Bowl ad, and revoked its permission to advertise during any NFL game, forever more.
Ashley Madison is a seven-year-old online dating service that connects married people looking for discrete affairs. Ironically, The New York Post recently printed a markedly non-discrete, full-page ad featuring an open letter to Eliot Spitzer (get the full Tomfoolery take).
A new Durex ad–that is WAY less discrete than the services of Ashley Madison, and even less likely to appear during this year’s Super Bowl–is sweeping the web in an online viral marketing campaign. Love Buzz editors are both disturbed (which is difficult) and amused by the “Get It On” campaign, which features a thirty-second rubber-rabbit orgy. We’ll never look at a balloon animal–or condom–the same way.
Buying advertising time during the Super Bowl for most-viewed personal ad ever.
Amy Borkowsky, who lists her age as "somewhere between Carrie and Samantha," is looking for Mr. Right, and what better way to reach a large pool of potential mates than during the XY's must-see televised event? She's been campaigning on her website SuperBowlSingleGirl hoping to raise approximately $3 million for the ad spot. Borkowsky has so far raised a mere thousand dollars and only a few open slots during the big game remain, but the innovative singleton is hopeful an advertiser might like her cause and feature her in an ad, if she's unable to buy one herself.
The lingerie's company's new ad campaign is a sexy, slinky, dreamy orgy.
Ohmigod. The new Agent Provocateur ad campaign, "Season of the Witch" is out and it's a gothic orgy! Inspired by tableaux vivant (French for living picture), the campaign features slinky garters-clad women squeezing pomegranates, wielding skulls and leather whips and making virgins into slaves.
