'Masturbating' Lingerie Advertisement Banned

[matcom]

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LONDON (Reuters) - A magazine advertisement for lingerie that showed a scantily clad model apparently masturbating was banned by Britain's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Wednesday for being offensive.

The ad for model Elle Macpherson's range of lingerie, which appeared in Vogue fashion magazine, featured a woman seen through a keyhole with her thumbs inside her underpants. The woman's face cannot be seen.

"The Authority considered that, because it implied the woman was masturbating, the advertisement was likely to cause serious or widespread offence," the ASA said in a statement after receiving a complaint.

It said the advertisers had been asked not to repeat the approach. Vogue said it received no complaints about the ad.

Bendon UK, the company behind Macpherson's lingerie range, said the advertisement depicted an intimate moment and that the photograph was "feminine, luxurious and stylized."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=3&u=/nm/20040304/od_nm/britain_lingerie_dc

[GOPisEvil]

1. Dammit Yahoo News! We need pictures!

x(

[TXlib]

2. Amen brother!

[Kellanved]

3. no prob

Thank god the German media is less prude:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,grossbild-334887-288863,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,288863,00.html


:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

4. THAT'S IT?!?!?

Oh, good grief!!!

That's NOTHING...:eyes:

[Richardo]

12. I'm more disturbed about the string...looks like...

...well let's just say they could have used another, less "tidal", style of underwear...

[Blue-Jay]

5. *That's* masturbating?

Looks more like she's trying to find her car keys.

[RC]

6. Or my keys.

:evilgrin:

[BiggJawn]

7. She must have long thumbs.

The caption should be "Damn pad leaked through again!"

[underpants]

13. It won't come up for me

Anyone else having this problem? :shrug:

[Zero Gravitas]

20. try one of those little blue pills

;)

[PVnRT]

16. That is SO not masturbating

Jeez, her hand isn't even inside her panties, for God's sake.

[Kellanved]

17. I don't think that's the problem

The problem is that the panties are almost flesh colored...

Well, I have the feeling that this is exactly what the marketing department wanted: lot's of publicity. The other observation to be made (this is not the first instance of it): the fashionable US prudishness is starting to swap over to Europe.

[Jack_Dawson]

24. Nice job on the link!

Random?

[bif]

8. Two thumbs up!

Pretty tame picture. How the heck did that get banned?

[Atman]

9. Looks like she's just pulling her panties up

Let me look again...





Hmmm....



Yeah, that's it... But I better check again...



Hmmm...oh, yeah, baby, that's it...pull those panties up! Find those car keys! YEAH BABY! YAAH....

oh..uh, sorry. Just researching.

[Khephra]

10. I read about this yesterday and almost...almost posted it

Leave it to you, Matcom, to find it.

:evilgrin:

[matcom]

11. thanks Keph

its a gift :D

[VelmaD]

14. If she is masturbating...

she's not doing a very good job of it. ;-)

[kitkatrose]

15. Ha ha!

That's too funny.

[dolo amber]

18. No kidding

:eyes:

Although in fairness I must say I never tried the thumbs thing...maybe I should do some research before I judge. :evilgrin:

[Blue-Jay]

19. Make sure you report back to us in...oh...ten minutes or so?

:D

[plcdude]

21. we need more research

on this send additional pictures for comparison analysis

[plcdude]

22. anyone else

come up with additional research items on this phenomenon?

[Habibi]

23. Well, I was referred here from another thread

so it's all new to me, but I have to say that it looks like she's posing for a faux-masturbating picture, rather than actually masturbating. But that's me. Personally? When I masturbate? It looks nothing like that.