Geisha Bondage Ad Banned for “Submissive Pose”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 3, 2009 05:17 JST
- Tags: BDSM, Censorship, Feminism, Marketing, Mass Media, Shibari, UK
An artistic ad featuring a bound geisha was banned based on a handful of complaints, with advertising censors condemning it as “condoning sexual violence against women” and observing that “she seemed upset” and was depicted in a “submissive pose.”
The photo itself shows a mildly bound geisha, and is by world famous photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, whose works grace several art galleries.
The exquisite mosaic tiling the geisha rests on is actually the product advertised – Bisazza is an Italian tile maker, and the adverts were carried in several high-end home decor magazines.
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, which has the power to ban adverts which offend its puritanical sensibilities, acted on the basis of 6 complaints and condemned the “demeaning” ads, saying the geisha was “shown in a submissive pose, appeared visibly upset and was shown with her kimono pushed up to expose her thigh.”
It asserts the ads condone rape:
“Notwithstanding the highly stylised nature of the ads, we considered the creative treatment could be seen to imply that sexual violence had taken place or was about to take place.”
It has banned the offending ads completely, though some similar ads escaped.
The company responsible defends the “artistic and beautiful” campaign as featuring “no nudity, innuendo, wounds or scenes of excessive perversion.”
The UK has of course recently banned most fetish porn, though the actual acts depicted remain quite legal so long as the person photographing them is actually involved in the sex…
Via the BBC.
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Submissive is always good
I wish people would take this seriously. If you don't stand up for freedom of expression now, it's going to be taken away. How do you think so many banning laws have been passed with studies proving the Opposite of what all these butthurt cencorship groups are saying.
Because enough of us aren't speaking up. And since Equality Now isn't listening, we need to go to the people they go to to be heard.
We need a leader.... my candidate is Lelouch Lamperouge
Agreed! ALL HEIL LELOUCH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlgQ5h2ySJ0
FABULOUS !
イェスマイロルド
I nominate Haruhi to piss off all the people who hated Endless 8
Not a freedom of expression issue, per se.
Tex, "freedom of expression" means your right to create and publish content of any form, regardless of how other people feel like it, and as long as it does not violate the law. This is equivalent to "freedom of speech" but is often used in the context of created works, rather than plain speech.
Consequently, a country that issues bans based on subjective 3rd party views cannot be considered free. They always start with things that are socially unacceptable (porn, jews) and then move to other things such as "offensive" political messages which "cause social disturbance", protests and the opposition.
イェスマイロルド
This actually says "Yes my lol'd."
Use ロード for "lord".
Fuck the britz anyway, they ways think they're so much better than the yanks yet their country is turning way sooner into a totalitarian than the 'amerikkkans' they so eagerd to mock. I'll enjoy watch them burn in hell.
*implies you'll also be there*
If only the UK had Freedom of Expression to begin with. Unfortunately no one can oppose the government because we lack Freedom of Speech.
I like my girls submissive...
You people need to realize that this sort of thing might be admissable if it wasn't for the extreme popularity and the rediculousness of things like Queen's Blade and all the other full blown rape games, videos, and images. While I agree completely that it doesn't make much sense, people know of the extreme shit, and then aren't happy to allow something innocent like this. You rape what you sow.
Cry more, crazy man.
They banned it due to "Politicaly Correctness" which says that NOTHING is acceptable if it offends just one person in your country.
It has nothing to do with what goes on in Japan (or is exported). Odds are that it is just a couple of overly sensitive women who complained because they don't like that they are welcome, and sure as hell don't like that for women to have sex, they have to submit to their partner. Anything that reminds them in the slightest of this, offends them.
Did you just compare Queen's Blade to "rape games, videos, and images"?
Are you retarded? The society depicted in Queen's Blade is a fucking matriarchy, with men reduced to powerless, unimportant bystanders (exceptions notwithstanding) too insignificant to show more than 1 or 2 of them per episode, usually as simple townsfolk or other forms of noninvolved bystanders...
Women are depicted as strong and powerful in every sense of the word. It's every feminist's wet dream...
sheesh! equality now don't know what means sarcasm... they can start world war III because of you!
What the.
fuck censorship
wasted ads
2d-raep would look&sell better. Equality now would ignore this shit since it ain't 2d.
I'd say brits are normal to react at this point. Prefer hardcore stuff to be limited to 2d since it makes it more tolerable.
fuck that they should focus on this crap and leave our 2d alone!
I was extremely offended. Material this far over the line makes beer commercials seem like nothing. Good thing I'm not the only one butthurt and we can stop this abomination.
All the ads about shaving products for woman are way more...eww...18+
WOW Now that's what I call sarcasm!!!!
he was dead serious, you know.
If he really (I think not) was serious he's a shining example of an asshole.
Well, it's the UK's sandbox, advertising-wise, but still....
Jesus-Fucking-CHRIST! >< They're more prudish than our 'feminists' and moralfag population here in the US! Didn't the Puritans LEAVE the UK because they were too lax?! o_0 Or did some of them sneak back in while no one was looking?
The latter seems more likely. The Pilgrims started their colony in 1620, the English Civil War lasted from 1641–1651, and Cromwell's religious beliefs were Puritan in nature.
No, because the UK is the most politically correct country in the world. Seriously, they would even ban their own St. George's Cross fearing it might offend the muslims.
It's over. UK is finished.
I can get 6 people to complain that the United Kingdom exists.
If I can get them to write to the UK government do you think they'll cater to those 6 people and disband their ****ing moralistic jackass country?
This is pretty win.
Go for it! The UK is busy breaking itself down and apart anyway. This would just hasten it.
I always find hilarious how puritanists think that by closing their eyes all evil will go away...
And how they think no one could ever _like_ being bound up, spanked (she looks like she wants), and taken hard (definitely she wants).
But no~... She's bound up against her will and is about to get raeped.
I don't know, she doesn't look too upset to me. Maybe a little bored, but it looks like shes smirking a little. So all in all I think she was just annoyed at how long the photo shoot was taking.
if you look closely, you can indeed make out a slight bit of acted submission/pain/reproach. but it's very slight and any sane human can make out that it's not real.
the justification is typical too: we see that it's not offensive at all, but we ban it anyway. just because.
how about, say, 7 people complain that they do NOT find the ad offensive and want it back on display?
Okay, the brit shits are starting to piss me off
+9000
They should just stick with their trannys.
Hey don't blame us for the retarded bullcrap this nanny state pushes on us. We didn't even elect Gordon Brown. I am actually going to complain that I don't find the ad offensive and who knows maybe they'll stop this stupid charade. gotta admit it's unlikely that they'll do it.
Anyone else who lives in the UK please do the same.
fucking feminazis!!! freedom of expression is dead.
Actually it was men who decided that since at the ASA mainly men work.
Well, they aren't going to avoid getting a bad rep unless they actually stand up and do something for free speech. So tough shit, feminazis.
Actually it was feminazis who lobbied for a policy/code of practice change in how the ASA handles advertisements. Obviously the organization's leaders (men) of the ASA decided to lube up and bend over and taste some feminazi cock.
+1
Rape bad, child sex changes good?
"visibly upset"?
She looks more bored then anything else and since when is showing your thigh considered something perverse? What is this the 1800s?
I blame people dirty minds thinking that it was that wrong,since people don't think well sometimes.The way they think what will happen or what happened is not right,the pic shows you only that moment there is no before or after moment.
I find this artistic,nothing more nothing less.
While I don't really agree with the banning, it's just a piece of tastless errr ...art?