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February 3rd, 2008 under Ads

According to Virgina Police it is and they removed 2 posters from an Abercrombie & Fitch store after they received several consumer complaints and issued a citation to the store manager for not removing them. An officer told the Hampton Roads:

Adam Bernstein, a police spokesman, said the seizure and the issuance of the summons came only after store management had not heeded warnings to remove the images.

The citation was issued under City Code Section 22.31, Bernstein said, which makes it a crime to display "obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles." He did not say what was being done with the pictures and when the manager, whose name was not released, is scheduled to appear in court.

I don't think there is anything wrong with that photo and I don't find it obscene. I think all the people who complained need to get over it and stop being such prudes! 


Read the Comments

[ # 85016 ] Comment from Aerobella [February 3, 2008, 9:02 pm]

Yes.. it’s very offensive to many people, and not a moral way to sell clothing to minors who shop there.

[ # 85128 ] Comment from Tam [February 4, 2008, 6:56 am]

No. Not offensive.Just showing what God gave him.
There is nothing moral about Capitalism. The bible isn’t even filled with morality. If parents are truly good at parenting-their children will look up to them as role models.No worries.

[ # 85196 ] Comment from BL [February 4, 2008, 9:56 am]

I’ve seen more butt crack on my plumber that was here last week.

[ # 85199 ] Comment from Michael [February 4, 2008, 10:07 am]

Um… Morality and selling to minors are two things that rarely go hand in hand.

If you are so blind to think that morality should be regulated by the police in Virginia, then you deserve to live in such a backwards place.

Go there and live in blissful ignorance. I, for one, will stay far away and make sure that my money goes to companies that market well, and not to moralistic imbeciles.

[ # 85261 ] Comment from J [February 4, 2008, 1:49 pm]

I… read the comments, and I STILL don’t get it. What is it? The TINY coin slot on hottie to the right?

Wow. It just looks like they were all walking, his pants started slipping, and he’s pulling them up.

I love how most people who are raised being told what to believe and do just do so without even processing this shit. It makes for a reallly good laugh.

[ # 85293 ] Comment from Cathy [February 4, 2008, 4:09 pm]

I actually saw this poster in an A&F store in L.A. and stood there loving it. LOVING IT. Women are usually the ones showing the skin and to see equal time with a great looking guy in a demure show of skin is sexy.

By the way, the designer noted that the guy was pulling UP his pants. When I saw the poster, all I could think was that he was pulling them DOWN and getting ready to dive into a lake and skinny dip. Goes to show you….

There is NOTHING WRONG with his poster. NOTHING. People need to get a life!!!

[ # 85315 ] Comment from Dylan [February 4, 2008, 5:49 pm]

A & F has a looong history of using sex to sell their product. It’s intent is certainly in the eye of the beholder, but I don’t think it’s out of the question to think A & F were eluding to the fact that the 1 girl & 3 guys were having a “roll in the hay” before this shot was taken.

As far as the nudity itself - screw it. I’ve seen more cleavage (ass or otherwise) in textbooks.

[ # 85368 ] Comment from Andria [February 4, 2008, 9:37 pm]

I work at an A&F, and we get customer complaints about this poster all the time… no one has asked us to take it down, and that’s probably a good thing because there wouldn’t be anything else for us to put in the entrance of the store. That’s the entrance poster for this season, and the ppl in the VA store probably didn’t take it down because they would just get in more trouble from their general and regional managers. Everyone knows that this is how A&F does its marketing. We get complaints every day about our posters, the loud music, and the overwhelming smell of cologne, but for some reason, it all sells clothes.

[ # 85439 ] Comment from BHcolin [February 5, 2008, 12:46 am]

so I have a question– Do the people who find this offensive go to Victoria Secret and tell them to take their posters down? VS shows so much more in their windows than that bit of that guys a-s.

[ # 85633 ] Comment from Joan [February 5, 2008, 10:26 am]

So let me get this straight: we have no problem selling violent “M” rated video games to our kids but we DO have a problem with this guy’s butt crack??? What a bunch of prudes Americans are! Go to Europe and watch the most erotic (and clever) commercials on TV for everything from perfume to soda.

I saw this poster at the entrance to an A&F store in NY and I loved the sense of joy and freedom it conveyed. I wasn’t counting the guys and the girl and thinking “Oh, they just had sex with her” or what they were “planning on doing” in the grass. I just looked at the photo and loved the whole spirit of it. I’d rather look at this than some gruesome poster of blood and gore from that latest horror flick.

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