Chaste enough for FR.
Posted on 06/13/2006 4:02:58 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China irked by topless women's health ad
Tue Jun 13, 12:45 AM ET
A Chinese TV presenter issued a public apology after posing topless with two other women in hospital advertisements for women's health, the Beijing News said on Tuesday.
Chen Dan, a presenter on Changsha TV's "Women's channel" in the southeastern province of Hunan, drew fire from Internet chat-rooms and station bosses after her "Clever Girls Love Themselves More" advertisement appeared at bus stops and on billboards in Hunan's capital, Changsha.
Chen, who was suspended from presenting duties said it was a "public interest advertisement", the Beijing News said.
"My intentions were good," the paper quoted her as saying. "I hoped to draw people's attention to women's health, but because the format was inappropriate it caused a huge backlash. In future I will choose more suitable ways of publicising women's health."
The advertisement provoked fierce debate online and in local media over the morality of using nudity to promote public interest causes, and whether the article was a commercial stunt for the women or Changsha's Shangmei Gynaecology Hospital.
"What a shame breasts have become the leading actor," the official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary.
"This is a serious attack on women," fumed an online commentator. "It goes completely beyond the moral and aesthetic baseline."
The "Clever Girls" advertisement furore followed a controversy over several actresses who posed nude in support of breast cancer prevention in a lifestyle magazine in October 2005.
http://changsha.sohu.com/ent/ylrd/200606/ent_44170.html
Nude anti-war protests, nude PETA protests, now nude health ad. Seems that latent exhibitionism is itching to come out whenever there is a plausible cover.
Ping!
Well, it ain't Playboy.:)
Chaste enough for FR.
More like the Chinese Dixie Chicks.
Pretty tame stuff, IMO.
It's not a bad thing! Not with women who look like these three.
Well, I feel heathier after viewing that picture :)
You and me both.
I guess I ended up doing something good for you today.:)
Very attractive...tasteful...healthy...
OK! Back to work!
cover those boobies...ah sooo!
Yowsa!
cover those boobies...ah sooo!
What boobies? Did somebody say boobies?
Boy, that really illustrates the trend for glamorizing white skin, Western features, and anything other than black hair, doesn't it? I assume their bosoms have been augmented, as well ...
Seems like the message is, "Women's health = plastic surgery."
O.K...cover those warts.
They show more than that on Xinhua.
Hi Tax-chick. My wife is Japanese and Asians do have this thing about light colored skin. In the west, people like a nice tan. In Asia, at least in Japan, it is more glamorous to have white skin and lighter (i.e. brown rather than black) hair. Culturally fair skin is in and tan skin is out.
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