Comments on: Armani adverts “promote sexual tourism”. Apparently.

By: Atomic645

Atomic645 — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:05:13 +0000

haha, reminds me of this old sketch comedy, where this politician was decrying public art, because he claimed all he saw was “naked boys, naked boys, naked boys!!!”, which he then smuggled the paintings into his office, going “mmmmmmm”
I’m sure a few Spanish political folk have a copy of this Ad for their own personal use.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:25:12 +0000

Laura, you are totally right. And that’s exactly what I wanted to say

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:32:08 +0000

I’ve seen the argument made that the only people who read “sexy” into pictures like that are people who actually *find* the kids sexy…and those people, to some extent, ALWAYS see kids as sexualized.
It puts me in mind of the far-right-wing-Christianist who said, a few years ago, that one needed to fight against homosexuality because homosexual sex was so much more enticing than heterosexual sex.
…yeah. Only if you happen to be homosexual, though! I sort of feel like the same thing is going on — this is only sexy to you if you…well, find kids sexy. Whether or not you care to admit it to yourself.