June 15th 2009
Our Crumbling Civilization: Calvin Klein Porn
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n Calvin Klein’s world, promiscuity reigns, and young girls are gang-banged by three guys (there’s a third on the floor – see his knee?) and it’s all jolly fun as long as you’re disrobing from Calvin Klein clothing in the process.
I don’t think that’s an accurate assessment of what most kids are up to nowadays, and I certainly don’t think Klein should be promoting it on this billboard, which now is riding high over a high-traffic part of New York City.
Not that many years ago, sex in advertising meant an attractive woman in an elegant dress standing next to the latest Buick, or a wholesome girl in a swimsuit that left everything to the imagination drinking a Coke. Now it means a slut in a lip-lock and under-the-pants butt-grab. That’s not sex in advertising; it’s porn in advertising.
If you agree and would like to send a message to Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, the company that owns Calvin Klein, One Million Dads makes it easy. They’ve put up a letter-generator, so in less time than it’ll take that girl to catch an STD, you can send a letter to Calvin Klein telling the president of the company:
Dear President Shiffman:
I am highly offended by your company’s disrespect for the millions of parents whose children will be exposed to your latest billboard ad.
Your company does not deserve, nor will it get, my family’s business as a result. I implore you to consider how your immoral actions affect the youth of our nation.
Please order the removal of your offensive billboard in New York City and cancel any plans to place it elsewhere.
Then give the company a call at 866-513-0513.
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June 16th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
It’s funny but, if you look closely at the picture, it contains within it its own indictment. The two passive youths — the one on the bottom of the threesome and the one on the floor — are bored. Their eyes are closed and they are completely disengaged. They’re so jaded by our decadent society, that even cool jeans and an orgy cannot awaken them. Wasn’t it Woody Allen who, in the 1960s, said something about his longing for the days when sex was still forbidden and therefore exciting?
June 16th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Horrendous.