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Some ads are so ridiculous, one can barely muster a comment. Is this image suppose to compel us to buy these clothes? (And who drinks milk with a straw?)

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Advertisement for Fetish perfume

Diesel s.p.a.
Advertising Department
7 Via Dell'Industria
36060 Molvena (VI)
Italia
Email: advertising_dept@diesel.com

Speaking about the advertising trend of more shocking images, advertising executives told THE BOSTON GLOBE, "You have to push a little harder...to hold, shock, break through. Now that the competition is fiercer, a whole lot rougher trade takes place. [Rough trade is gay male slang for a sadistic heterosexual partner.] Today, business wants even more desperately to seduce....It wants to demolish resistance." (Naomi Wolf, Beauty Myth)

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Readwhat one About-Face visitor sent to the company - and their response. The complaints that Dana Perfume Corp. received about this advertisement prompted them to pull it. As consumers, you have lots of power! Use it!




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