Calvin Klein's Latest Ad Unveiled On Houston Street

I liked the one before this better, this guy is way too greasy looking, its just not appealing! I just dont get the sense in it either, what does having this guy super greasy and naked up there have to do with the clothes... not to mention he has the weirdest body type, super skinny but muscular with huge legs and a little butt?!...

So GREAT! I like change! Instead of white titties all day and all night, bring on some Wesley Snipes black naked booty! Woot!

Hardly pornographic, but questionable design.

I'd love to meet some downtown prudes; they sound like a swell crowd. In the meantime, the Calvin Klein ads are tedious. Like the clothes.

At first glance, I thought that was Grace Jones.

Grace had bigger abs.

So that's what happened to Robert Mapplethorpe's son.

You see more skin on half the statues around the city. Whoever objects to this is ridiculous.

Ew no thx. White people plz.

So there aren't enough pictures of naked white people accessible to your sticky little adolescent fingers?

Psht.

He ain't got nothing on me.

Ladies, holla at yo boy.

;)

Oh my!Both pics should have been nude.

If I may generalize for a moment: Americans are prudes.

What you do not get is that most other places around the world do not have as many even slightly ponographic images/movies/texts as the US, so we seem more prude because there is so much more to be prude about. Americans are anything but prude, you cant turn a corner without seeing something about sex!

I stand by my original comment, but would like to add that Americans are also homophobic racists.

Bye.

oh please:

"The pornographic film industry is centered in the San Fernando Valley, northwest of downtown Los Angeles. An estimated 200 production companies in the region employ as many as 1,500 performers, making up to 11,000 films and earning as much as $13 billion a year."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/health/13hiv.html?_r=1

The proliferation of pornography is a symptom of cultural prudery. Even Walt Whitman complained of the simultaneously prudish and pornographic treatment of sex in this country 150 years ago.

There has been pornography in most cultures going back millenia. Have they all been prudish? The Kama Sutra? Pompeii? The French postcards?

Not every explicit depiction of sex is pornographic. The Kama Sutra is certainly not pornography. In a very general definition the erotic murals in a Roman brothel or bathhouse might be described as pornographic in the sense that they are intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic feelings. I'm talking about the massive commercial production, distribution, and consumption of pornographic video that treats sex as the private indulgence of perverse desires rather than a healthy part of family life and central part of the life of a cultural community.

says you. Whitman made that statement because he was a gay man in america 150 years ago. cruising was tough back then. farleft's statement is not original and its just not true. have you ever been to college? a club? the men's bathroom in a park or airport? there is splooge flying everywhere son.

jesus, there is a shiny black ass the size of a bus displayed prominently and you're here trying to convince us that america is prudish? oh please.

Whitman was actually addressing the oppression of women in this case, not his own sexuality, which is a complex and contested subject. Cruising was no more difficult back then than it is now. In fact, there was much less prosecution of homosexual activity in Whitman's time than there would be in the middle of the 20th century. I've been to all the cruising areas you mention, but how is that relevant? Cruising for sex and consuming pornography are not the same thing. There is clearly a conflict in this country between individuals' sex drives and cultural tendency towards prudery. The extra-marital activities of "family values" politicians are perhaps more instructive examples than the cruising activities of gay men.

As opposed to let's say, muslims who forcibly cover their women head to toe in black bags?

It's the Sable Surfer.

1. That guy is way too skinny and 2. That suit does not fit properly. A better-fitting suit can be found at Banana Republic. That billboard completely turns me off from buying Calvin Klein clothes. Good job!

Calvin Klein clothes are complete garbage. Fall apart a month after you bu them.

Dude looks like the Light Sweet Crude Surfer.

All that work and STILL an ill fitting suit.

That's hot. I might have to spend the weekend in soho.

Beautiful! sculptural, elegant and majestic.

Take this over anorexic teens.

gross.

No THAT'S fashion. It's absolutely arresting.

I approve...but obviously, photoshopping is not limited to women.

Avatar II - the Na'vi from the hood.

thank you Gothamist for holding this topic off until after i had my lunch. :)

A giant, naked ass...thanks Calvin Klein.

Ah, the amorphous tar monster from Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

You killed Tasha Yar, you son of a bitch.

HA HA HA!!!