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Calvin Klein's Latest Ad Unveiled On Houston Street

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Photo via Copyranter

You can take the orgy out of the Calvin Klein billboard, but you'll still be left with a one-man sex show. The latest image in the company's rotating ad space above Houston Street is pictured above, and Copyranter reports back saying, "His name is David Agbodji, and he's part of the new Calvin Klein Spring/Summer 2010 Collection ad campaign... I'm thinking five-story Mr Agbodji is going to light up the switchboard!" But this man is neither under-aged nor involved in an orgy with anyone under-aged... so maybe the downtown prudes will give it a pass?

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  • Cat

    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?!...

  • eat vegans

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

  • dgeee

    Hardly pornographic, but questionable design.

  • Telephone 280

    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.

  • Spirit of 76

    At first glance, I thought that was Grace Jones.

  • NannyState

    Grace had bigger abs.

  • Snoopy

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

  • seven

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

  • ur doing it rong

    Ew no thx. White people plz.

  • Mr. Know-It-All

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

  • Wza

    Psht.

    He ain't got nothing on me.

    Ladies, holla at yo boy.

    ;)

  • Thinky Think

    Oh my!Both pics should have been nude.

  • farleft

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

  • Cat

    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!

  • farleft

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

    Bye.

  • hotstepper

    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

  • Mr. Know-It-All

    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.

  • thefacts

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

  • Mr. Know-It-All

    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.

  • hotstepper

    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.

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