You can have Jenna Jamison in a big Vivid billboard in Times Square, but don't give Times Square a lady maybe-maybe-not touching a dude's special place! AdAge reports that "youth denim brand" Plugg's ad was rejected from a Times Square billboard, not to mention Teen People and Elle Girl. Boston Properties, which charges $50,000 per month for the placement, thought it was "too suggestive" and wanted changes. Van Wagner, the outdoor company who represents Boston Properties, said that Times Square businesses "welcome innovation, but they don’t welcome a return to pornography... and when a lady appears to be grabbing a young man’s crotch, that’s a little out there." That's right! Times Square wants less whores, more stores!
AdAge also said that Cosmo Girl took the ad after revisions and Jane magazine took the ad as is; Plugg's agency, M Media, has revised the ad by "[softening] the muscle definition in the male model’s chest, [raising] the waistline of the jeans on the male model a bit to cover the so-called GI Joe Muscle, which is apparently 'still forbidden territory to show'...and even changed the position of the couple." Love it!
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That's FEWER whores, folks, not "less". Even prostitutes deserve good grammar.
Hmm I didn’t think you were the copy-editor for Gothamist editrix. Dick.
The woman is obviously not touching his bulge, but his leg, just a little up there that’s all. Not even a nut is being grabbed. The only problem I see with this billboard is that the guy needs a shirt, and a shower.
Oh, it's double standard time again. Where's the furor over that guy being so skinny!
I'm outraged that they make it look like he's able to hold her like that without both of them falling over!
Even though the guy's way skinny, he seems capable of holding a 90 lb. body like that.
Hey Kojak, what do you have against helping Gothamist? If Gothamist's tag were sticking out, I would want to help with that too. I suspect that you were the person running around junior high yanking on people's oxfords and yelling "FAG TAG!!" Mainly because you posted just so you could write words like "bulge" and "nut".
I'm sorry, should that be 'you ARE the person running around junior high'?
Hay thats my daughter :) (not kidding)
Renee told me she was off to the right he was off to the left :) lol