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Calvin Klein 'threesome' billboard in SoHo too sexy, say some
daily news | ny local ^ | June 14, 2009 | Sarah A. Armaghan

Posted on 06/14/2009 11:43:29 PM PDT by smokingfrog

A steamy Calvin Klein billboard that seems to show a teenage girl in a threesome - with suggestions of a foursome - is raising eyebrows and ire.

Passersby can't miss the massive, sexually charged ad on a building at Lafayette and Houston Sts. in SoHo, and they can't believe their eyes.

"It's borderline pornographic," said neighborhood resident Lisa Marchese, 36, a marketing specialist who was disturbed by the youthfulness of the models.

"They all look so young, particularly the girl. And to portray them in a threesome - it's just taking it too far."

The ad depicts a topless young woman lying on top of a barechested boy while kissing a second shirtless male.

They're on a sofa, and below them a third male - pants and shirt unbuttoned - is lying on the floor.

Asked about the message in the ad, a Calvin Klein spokesman said the "intention was to create a very sexy campaign that speaks to our targeted demographic."

New Yorkers think they overshot.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ads; advertising; billboard; calvinklein; culturewars; homosexualagenda; noshame; promiscuity; suggestive
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If New Yorkers think it is over-the-top, it probably is.
1 posted on 06/14/2009 11:43:29 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Stay classy folks.

2 posted on 06/14/2009 11:49:45 PM PDT by bornred
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To: smokingfrog
It's a massive billboard. I don't know exactly how long it's been up, but I saw it several weeks ago and was taken aback. But, I live in the Georgia, so I assumed that just the way things are in the big apple.

When you're talking about a state who fires one Governor for the contracting of "fine" prostitutes, and replaces him with a Governor who apparently enjoys cocaine and extra-marital affairs. the billboard just fits in.

3 posted on 06/14/2009 11:55:56 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: smokingfrog

First of all it is the bad kind of threesome


4 posted on 06/14/2009 11:56:43 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: bornred
One has to wonder what manner of ads they rejected before they went with this one.
5 posted on 06/14/2009 11:57:30 PM PDT by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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To: smokingfrog

What country is SoHi?


6 posted on 06/14/2009 11:57:41 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: smokingfrog

What’s the girl on the billboard hoping to accomplish with Three gay guys?


7 posted on 06/14/2009 11:57:53 PM PDT by BigCinBigD ('When a man believes that any stick will do, he at once picks up a boomerang,')
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To: dalereed

SoHo


8 posted on 06/14/2009 11:58:37 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: LukeL

D-uddily-itto.


9 posted on 06/14/2009 11:59:26 PM PDT by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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To: BigCinBigD

LOL


10 posted on 06/14/2009 11:59:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: smokingfrog

Calvin Klein placed this billboard in SoHo and not in Waco.

The reason for this is that the ad works in SoHo while it would not work in Waco.


11 posted on 06/15/2009 12:03:07 AM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: bornred

New York and California are morally, fiscally bankrupt.

The anarchist and the sophisto have an inquenchable thirst for the decadent.


12 posted on 06/15/2009 12:04:38 AM PDT by ChiMark
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To: smokingfrog

Wow. Calvin Klein going the way of Abercrombie. Just damn.


13 posted on 06/15/2009 12:04:51 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K; wagglebee

How homosexual of them.


14 posted on 06/15/2009 12:06:13 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: smokingfrog

Its not the first time Calvin Kline has dont this...he must be a borderline perv...


15 posted on 06/15/2009 12:11:27 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: smokingfrog

Looks like kind of a fun shoot if the boys swing that way, although what the one underneath is fantasizing about is a bit of a mystery given what’s going on overhead. Who stole his underpants, maybe.


16 posted on 06/15/2009 12:17:54 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: smokingfrog

New Yorkers would have to climb out of the gutter to see it.


17 posted on 06/15/2009 12:23:38 AM PDT by South40 (Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. ~Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: ChiMark

That about says it and it’s showing. Nowhere to ever go but down.


18 posted on 06/15/2009 1:16:25 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: smokingfrog

This is just one more way homosexuality is gaining acceptance. Such ads appeal to female sub conscious fantasies while they appeal to male biological drives to spread the genes. If one doubts this Freudian insight just try showing an ad that has two men and one woman — it would not fly since males down’t want competition and females generally only want one male partner.


19 posted on 06/15/2009 1:22:36 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: bornred

“Nothing comes between me and my Calvin Klein’s.”-
Brooke Shields.


20 posted on 06/15/2009 1:23:11 AM PDT by gigster
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