Here’s another ad that pushes the limits. The PUMA ad was fake. This one is real. Although, all someone would have to do is add a little “white stuff” to this ad and would be just as “interesting” as those PUMA spoofs.
This is an actual ad for Patrick Cox Shoes that appeared in the U.K. magazine, i-D. The advertising standards body, a group that monitors ads for “decency” in the U.K., has banned the ad from running again as it was deemed to cause “serious offense” to people. Patrick Cox responded by explaining that ad really isn’t all that offensive because, after all, the two men are wearing jockstraps that “made penetrative intercourse impossible”.
If you have to explain an ads “decency” with that kind of explanation, then you have to wonder about it in the first place.
Thank to Ad-Rag for this.
