(Some were so uncomfortable they actually had to turn the magazine face-down rather than look at that).
Well, it's four years later now, and here we go again: Three out of the four US television networks have refused to allow a maker of tampons to mention the word vagina in an advertising campaign.
Wait, it gets sillier. After the agency was informed of this, they re-shot the ads with--they thought--the less daring "down there." And that was rejected. (What next, the Monty Python term "naughty bits?")
I don't know why vaginas should be so unacceptable. Personally, I've long thought they were a particularly good part of the female body (I mean, apart from the fact that they're all icky and everything).
Yes, I'm willing to go out on a limb to say that.
For that matter, I don't understand why more people don't just have...
Good lord, not a breast! Banning the word vagina is just silly, but the fact that the ad has potential to actually be funny is worse.
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