which is what the lifestyle police have
in mind all along.
Posted on 07/11/2002 4:27:31 PM PDT by JMJ333
A few quotes from the link:
Abercrombie & Fitch blatantly is again using pornography to sell its teen-targeted merchandise with the release of its fall catalog.
The "Abercrombie and Fitch Fall Quarterly" continues to push the legitimization of recreational, promiscuous sex. The quarterly's message, evident in photo after photo and article after article, is that sex outside of marriage with multiple partners is just part of college life. Its wrapper is aptly labeled: "How to break every rule in the freshman handbook."
The summer edition of the so-called catalog also was aptly labeled XXX by the company. It, too, was devoted to full-page, color photographs of nude teenagers cavorting at the beach, in the water, in the backyard. The erotically posed photographs are what you would expect to see in a porn magazine, not in a clothing catalog whose market audience is teenagers and pre-teens.
The catalogs also contain obscenity-laden articles. Included is an advice column offering such "wisdom" to the college-bound as:
"Dear Veronica, Since we assume you've already been spending a lot of your time getting blasted and sleeping with the first guy who smiles at you, all you need to do is learn to cut classes and insert a diaphragm.
As the Michigan Attorney General's office stated: "Tutorials by porn stars on how to engage in oral and sadomasochistic sex, and other content in your materials are harmful to minors."
"A&F's biggest market is young teens and pre-teens, so the excuse it is targeting more mature college students clearly is, as teens put it, “lame.” Show the company it isn't fooling anyone."
No, I can't bear to part with my yellow hat.
Those jerks.. putting me in a spot like this.
Here is the url so you can see for yourself. It is just for educational purposes you understand.
http://abercrombie.com/anf/lifestyles/html/lifestyle.html
I hate to say it, but I looked and nothing seemed that out of line to me. Yes, the young man and woman both presented impossible-to-obtain standards of attractiveness, but it was really pretty tame compared to stuff you see every day. Maybe I clicked the wrong links.
I imagine you get a little frisky watching a Crest toothpaste commercial, what with the clean mouth, healthy gums, pouting lips and all. A Puritan must have the ability to see the sexual deviance of everything.
My god! The horror. My eyes, My eyes!
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