Jeffries has been exceedingly arrogant and smug on this matter. I'd like to return to A & F as a customer, but haven't been able to for years. Time to compliment A & F for their better judgement and corporate responsibility.
I would respectfully disagree. I will not buy merchandise from A&F, and I suggest that a boycott continue. Here's why:
The corporate "culture" that thought it was a reasonable business practice to sell underage sex (or at least the appearance of underage sex) has not changed, the only difference between today and yesterday is that today, the A&F command structure understands that they cannot publish questionable material and call it a "Catalog". The same people who OKed this decision are still in charge and will be making decisions for A&F in the future. There has been no accountability for the depravity of A&F's marketing campaign. I believe that economic pressure should be placed upon A&F until the stockholders vote out the pedophiles who actually thought there would be a consequence-free environment for peddling smut. One can only imagine the corporate thought process -
"What's the worst that can happen? A couple thousand right-wing religious wackos get bent out of shape. If enough of them call, we'll just stop selling the thing, but in the meantime, Oh boy! The publicity!"
I have never believed it is a corporation's responsibility to be behave morally or ethically. But I will only support those companies whose leaders are demostrably moral or ethical; or, at the very worst, don't bank on pornography to sell either catalogs or that company's image.
Let's not stop kicking the wanna-be child pornographers now that they're down.