Over the summer, Calvin Klein erected an orgy-themed billboard on Houston Street that drew some extra attention thanks to the Daily News reporting on the faux-controversy. Months later, the jeans and underwear company has put up a new ad imbued with an extra dose of sex to ensure the same result. The newspaper hit Houston Street in search of quotes and found even milder outrage over the Eva Mendes lingerie ad: a Queens resident calling it “borderline pornography.” Read more »
Calvin Klein has gone and switched up their Houston Street billboard, replacing the image of topless teens making out with a bikini-clad model. While it’s doubtful the small controversy surrounding the old billboard had anything to do with the change, at least Virginia-based conservative columnist Erika Lassen can take comfort in the fact that the freedom-inhibiting ad will not be putting mind control over anyone like it did to her. |Ramble on Rose|
After sparking a tiny bit of outrage in New York, Calvin Klein’s latest sexed up billboard on Houston Street is inspiring out of town attacks. In an article titled, “Sexy ads limit my freedoms,” Virginia-based conservative columnist Erika Lassen blames the jeans company for mind control because she can’t stop thinking about the topless models making out. The Brigham Young graduate writes:
An interesting thing happens when pornography is viewed. Like a leech, it clings to the brain. Read more »
The Daily News has found a modicum of outrage over a new attention-whoring ad on Houston Street, the latest in a string of predictably provocative Calvin Klein billboards. One neighborhood resident makes a keen observation that the image of three shirtless models making out, with a fourth sleeping on the floor, is “borderline pornographic.” A twenty-something passerby says it’s straight up “inappropriate” and the American Family Association, a conservative Christian group that’s uncomfortable with same-sex greeting cards, is naturally repulsed. Read more »
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