Characters Go Buggy in Sex Tape-Turned-PSA

brazil_mosquito.jpg

Brazilians can keep things hot. YouTube was recently shut down in Brazil after model Daniela Cicarelli won an injunction against them for perpetuating a video of her and a boyfriend having sex on the beach.

Why do celebrities act confounded after getting caught having sex in public? Let’s just make it a rule of thumb that, famous or not, public sex conceives sex tapes. We’ve accepted it. Why can’t they?

YouTube’s back online. And apart from titillating millions of viewers the tape may do more good. Agency Escala modeled a guerilla effort after it for the Health Secretary of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, who wanted an educational tool for dengue fever, a virus hosted by a mosquito native to South Brazil.

You’ve still got the steamy beach scene and the pair getting kinky in shallow water. Except instead of the model and her boyfriend, they’re mosquitos. (Of course.)

The final message reads: “The dengue mosquito reproduces in water. Remove standing water from discarded tires and bottles. Put earth in flower pots. And don’t forget to cover pools and water tanks.”

We tried coming up with a PSA angle for the Paris Hilton tape but failed. Few other species have awkward drugged-up sex in a seedy room. None that we know of, anyway. Though the thought of making them hyenas just for shits and giggles, and turning the bedroom into a psychedelic cave, was funny for a minute or two.

Update: A copy of the video with English subtitles is here.

Picture of Steve Hall

Steve Hall

RECENT ARTICLES

TRENDING AROUND THE WEB

9 things people with real self-respect refuse to argue about

9 things people with real self-respect refuse to argue about

Hack Spirit

8 signs someone grew up watching every penny, even if they’re comfortable now

8 signs someone grew up watching every penny, even if they’re comfortable now

Hack Spirit

A study on gesture found that moving your hands while you talk only lightens your mental load when the movement actually matches your words — waving them around at random doesn’t help

A study on gesture found that moving your hands while you talk only lightens your mental load when the movement actually matches your words — waving them around at random doesn’t help

Global English Editing

7 things that were completely normal in the 70s and would be unthinkable now

7 things that were completely normal in the 70s and would be unthinkable now

Hack Spirit

9 things people who grew up in a big family do without even thinking

9 things people who grew up in a big family do without even thinking

Hack Spirit

8 forgotten pleasures of a house with the television switched off

8 forgotten pleasures of a house with the television switched off

Hack Spirit