This anti-wool ad by Times Square was deemed to be too racy for a billboard in Times Square. The very same Times Square that was once the NYC capital of peep-shows and p0rn shops. But somehow PETA, who has a history of pushing the envelope with racy ads cannot air this current ad on a billboard…because?
Maybe I spend far too much of my time on the Internet and can’t tell when things are racy anymore, but I’ve watched this ad several times now and for the life of me I cannot find what’s so bad about it.
PETA launched an anti-wool campaign on Sunday with a Times Square video billboard showing a woman scratching her crotch while a male version of that spot got shot down as too racy, the radical animal rights group said.
“Scratch Wool From Your Shopping List” debuted on a Times Square billboard, showing the crotch area of a woman in a slightly unzipped red long underwear with her hand in the shot scratching herself.
PETA had hoped to run a second spot showing a man in a similar pose — although his unzipped PJs appeared to be cut low enough to show his pubic hair — that ad was deemed unacceptable.
“We’re living in the era of twerking, where people are simulating anal sex on TV,” said PETA vice president Dan Mathews. “I don’t see how scratching is a big thing.”
The group unveiled the video billboard on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues on Sunday. Another spot, nearby at 1500 Broadway, is expected to debut later this month.
So, let’s watch this ad that’s ruining the children of America and then discuss:
In all of this I just wonder where in the hell Jenna Maroney, the official spokeswoman for wool is?
She’s the champion wool needs right now in this time of unfair persecution, and dammit she needs to come forward and do her wooly duties.
Also, have we all really become such pussies that we can’t even look at a belly button anymore?
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