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Advertising industry executives will tell you that some ad campaigns are more fun to create than others. Antacid and toilet cleaners, for example, aren’t exactly the most exciting products to promote. But a condom ad campaign is sure to be an enjoyable adventure for any ad manager.
But just because condom ads are fun to make, it doesn’t mean they are easy. There’s so much potential to make tasteless or offensive jokes that condom advertising requires a more delicate touch. Great condom ads should be subtle and make us think a little bit before rewarding us with the punch line.
Check out twenty-one condom ads that don’t seem like condom ads at first.
Gerard Damiano, director of arguably the most famous pornographic film in history, has died at age 80. Damiano died Saturday at a Fort Myers hospital after having a stroke in September.
“He was a filmmaker and an artist and we thought of him as such,” his son said. “Even though we weren’t allowed to see his movies, we knew he was a moviemaker, and we were proud of that.”
“Deep Throat” was a mainstream box-office success and launched the modern XXX film industry. Damiano shot the film in six days in 1972 for just $25,000. When the movie opened in Times Square, it instantly gained attention from media critics and cultural conservatives, whose repeated legal challenges helped turn the movie into multi-million-dollar hit.
“Deep Throat” became “a cultural must-see for Americans who had just lived through the sexual liberation of the 1960s.” It also launched the brief career of its star, Linda Lovelace, who later denounced the movie in an anti-pornography crusade.
Damiano was born in New York in 1928 and worked as a hairdresser, served in the Navy, and directed several adult films. Damiano’s young son often accompanied his father on film sets, but would be ushered out during sex scenes. “We weren’t allowed to see certain parts of it,” his son said. “But my parents always felt that it was nothing to be ashamed of, what he did.”
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I doubt the architects of this ornate concrete wall had these shadows in mind when designing it.
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If you have trouble reading this, step back a few feet from your computer screen.
Former child star Maureen McCormick, who in the 1970’s played the oldest daughter Marcia Brady on the long-running family sitcom The Brady Bunch, has confessed to becoming a cocaine addict and trading sex for drugs.
In her new tell-all memoir called “Here’s the Story,” McCormick, now 52, reveals how her life became the polar opposite of her character. “I had played Marcia Brady for five years,” McCormick says in her book. “But I wasn’t her in any way, shape or form. She was perfect. I was anything but that.”
Over the years, McCormick battled drug addiction and bulimia, was treated in a psych ward, and went in and out of rehab. Shockingly, McCormick also revealed she traded sex for drugs with a Hollywood cocaine dealer who later went to jail, and once allowed an older man she met at the Playboy Mansion to videotape her naked in exchange for drugs.
After several attempts at drug rehab, McCormick now lives a Brady-like life in a suburb of Los Angeles with her husband and their 19-year-old daughter. McCormick says she has finally made peace with her past as a Brady. “It took most of my life, countless mistakes, and decades of pain and suffering to reach this point of equanimity and acceptance,” she writes in her book.
There must be something in the water in Florida. In 2006, Republican U.S. Representative Mark Foley stepped down when it was discovered that he sent sexual text messages to male teenage pages who worked for him on Capitol Hill.
Replacing Foley was Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Mahoney. On Tuesday it was revealed that the married congressman was having an affair with a former aide and paid her $121,000 to keep quiet and avoid a sexual harassment lawsuit. But apparently one mistress was not enough, as Mahoney was having an affair with a second woman around the same time, according to a person close to his campaign.
Mahoney acknowledged he had caused “embarrassment and heartache” to his family but denied doing anything illegal. “No marriage is perfect,” Mahoney said, “but our private life is our private life.”
Mahoney, 52, won his seat in 2006 by promising to return morals and family values to Washington after the resignation of Foley. Let’s see: infidelity, a cover-up, and infidelity again. Yes, these are the family values we wish to espouse to our children. Just another example of the moral failure and corruption in Congress.
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In-flight Internet access is the hottest new thing in air travel. It lets people check email, watch their 401K evaporate, and read SexyNewz.com.
And that’s exactly what concerns the airlines. Officials are worried that airline wi-fi will turn jets into flying adult theaters. There would be no need to sneak back into the lavatory to join the mile-high club.
As a result, airlines are installing Web filters to prevent passengers from surfing porn. Flight attendants and child activists and are cheering the move. Flight attendants didn’t want to become morality cops and were worried about in-flight disruptions that would ensue by forcing passengers to turn off their porn.
But privacy rights advocates question whether blocking porn is the first step down a slippery slope. “I don’t think it makes much sense,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “Filters do nothing to keep people from viewing inappropriate material stored on their laptops and open the door to blocking other content airlines — or others — might deem inappropriate.”

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