Moral Double Standards

Slybacon · 15-09-2009, 01:09 PM

I work for a newspaper group. This morning, there was a big kerfuffle, the group director was called in and everything. The cause? An advert from a Tattoo studio.

First one of the designers, then a manager, then the director decided that the advert was obscene as it featured a drawing of woman astride a tattoo machine.

I wouldn't really care, but it seems a bit rich as we're Edinburgh based and we happily run adverts for saunas (if your not aware of Edinburgh's relaxed licensing laws, thats code for brothels) and escorts every single day....

15-09-2009, 02:06 PM

as the legendary poet john cooper clarke once said

ya ll find all kinds of hideousness
and horrible excess
but ya wont find a nipple
in the daily express!!

Gothika85 · 15-09-2009, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slybacon

I work for a newspaper group. This morning, there was a big kerfuffle, the group director was called in and everything. The cause? An advert from a Tattoo studio.

First one of the designers, then a manager, then the director decided that the advert was obscene as it featured a drawing of woman astride a tattoo machine.

I wouldn't really care, but it seems a bit rich as we're Edinburgh based and we happily run adverts for saunas (if your not aware of Edinburgh's relaxed licensing laws, thats code for brothels) and escorts every single day....

But a tattoo machine is practically a vibrator!!!

Hahaha. Well, it vibrates.......

WendyB · 15-09-2009, 07:14 PM

That happened to me once - the local paper refused to print my ad which featured a pin-up, fully clad, but reclining in underwear.

I wasn't that bothered but I did wonder how many people had been tied up in meetings for how long to decide that a picture of a covered up woman was "inappropriate" lol!