Ad Raises Some Ire

The recent hoo-ha around the Calvin Klein billboard has me conflicted.
On the one hand, it IS too risque for a public space with the chillin’s and young impressionable folk to see. Unless we were France whose popular culture has been chock full of sexuality with nary an ill effect for eons. But we’re not. We’re schizo America–morally puritanical and superficially liberal–whose people are affected by media images with a disturbing regularity. I imagine it’s because we’re a young country and still just too impressionable!
On the other hand, I think it’s “Wow! Sizzle!”. It’s super sexy. And although it’s not going to make me buy the product (I already adore the CK line) it certainly may convert a few of the youngsters!
[I feel the claws of my puritanical ancestors reaching up from the grave to slap me up side the head!]






