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http://news.aol.ca/article/calgary-transit-pulls-racy-ads/766444/
http://news.aol.ca/article/calgary-transit-pulls-racy-ads/766444/
Calgary Transit Pulls Racy Ads
Source: CBC News
Posted: 01/07/10 5:01PM
Calgary Transit has removed two mobile phone ads, showing a man and woman in a passionate kiss, after complaints that they were too provocative.
The ads are part of a campaign by Virgin Mobile and feature the tagline "Hook up fearlessly."
Three different versions showing a couple embracing and kissing were placed in bus shelters around Calgary.
Ron Collins, a spokesman for Calgary Transit, said the company decided to take down two of the three ads after it received several complaints from the public.
"It's basically the positioning of the hands of the male on the female," Collins explained Thursday. "In one, the hand's on her buttocks. Another, it's on her thigh area and that sort of thing and so we didn't think that was appropriate."
One ad will be allowed to stay up. Collins said the posters did not go through a regular screening process.
"What happens is the contractor will usually have us review something that looks like it might be inappropriate or contentious. And in this particular case, that didn't happen."
Nathan Rosenberg, a spokesman for Virgin Mobile Canada, said the mobile company is surprised by the reaction but supports the campaign creating discussion.
He said the Virgin ads are meant to express a range of human emotion and the dynamic of relationships.
Virgin is running the "Hook up fearlessly" campaign across the country with different images, including one of two men kissing. That ad wasn't run in Calgary.
In October, Calgary Transit rejected a Glenbow Museum advertising campaign showing a sculpture of a naked newborn.
Okay-- but what's up with the angel wings?
