Are we still supposed to be shocked by women's body hair?

Via AOTW

These "ads," posted on Ads Of The World, are showing up around the internet. It's not the first time women's body hair has been used as a punchline. (Thanks, Joe La Pompe!) However, I suspect that these are spec ads. The only credits are to the AD (Peder Stryhn) and photographer (Magnus Ekstrøm), who presumably are counting on sex and controversy to get their names mentioned.

But why would this be controversial?

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Over the past few years, fashion brands such as American Apparel have used the tactic to get headlines, but as grooming fashions continue to change will these types of stunts lose their edge?

Personally, I hope so. 

"#Titcoins" is someone's bad spec idea, right?

Titcoins by Pornhub from Javi Iñiguez de Onzoño on Vimeo.

When this video first made the rounds last week, I filed it under "someone's idea of clever spec work" and kind of forgot about it. Not even worth a comment. Or so I first thought.

After all, PornHub is already in-market internationally with the crowdsourced "SFW advertising contest" which is much more clever than this. But since the mostly-male creative class in global advertising wants to do work that is even more sexist than the stuff that's already out there, we keep getting things like this:

I'm not convinced that PornHub had anything to do with this "ad". The post on Ads Of The World gives credit to a Spanish digital agency called La Despensa, which has a number of known brands in its portfolio. But did anyone at PornHub sign a contract, make an approval, or place this on any media?

Not that they're paragons of virtue. I just can't see them thinking this was a worthwhile regional campaign.

Much more interesting, to me however, is the commentary showing up on the AOTW post:

This is not a place in which I am used to seeing a lot of sensitivity. Is #YesAllWomen even reaching the hardened hearts and burned-out souls of advertising enthusiasts?

Please, say it is so.

Durex ads: Faked for your pleasure?

Update: According to Copyranter, these ads are apparently "real" abominations created by Buzzman.fr. Not that it makes them any less vile. (Although it's odd that they're not on Buzzman's Facebook Page.)

These fake "edgy" ads are getting really tiresome.



This one, from Illegal Advertising, uses a cheap sight gag with batter to make a naughty bukkake reference. (If you don't know what that is, don't look it up. You've been warned.)

It's not so much the making of these spec pieces that bugs me so much as they'll be passed around as real.

But hey — if you're into this kind of humour, here are two more from the same YouTube Channel:





(Post picked up by Copyranter on Buzzfeed)