# Are you OK with fashion ads of people actually having sex with genitals pixellated - Maybe NSFW **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518 "2017-04-01T18:42:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/1 "2017-04-01T18:42:36Z")
Re the article link below. Would you be OK with your kid thumbing through a magazine at the orthodontist’s office and they page across these ads? I’m not too exercised about it, but weirdly the pixellation almost makes them _more_ transgressive and more potently sexual than a straight up photo of the act. The pics are very nicely done. No nudity but there are huge chunky pixels where the nudity was [Ekhaus Latta’s Latest Ad Campaign Shows People Really Doin’ It](http://themuse.jezebel.com/ekhaus-lattas-latest-ad-campaign-shows-people-really-do-1793908476) it’s pretty much (from a lyman’s view) stylish, pretty people porn stills where the genitals are pixellated. > [@](#): > > Eckhaus Latta, the New York-based fashion line by Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Lotta, is known and loved for its innovative, deconstructed designs. So I guess it’s a natural progression that they would eventually run ads of partially-clothed real-life couples actually fucking each other. > > “We were thinking of how we were using sexuality, the relationship between fashion advertising and sexuality—and in very direct terms saying sex sells,” photographer Heji Shin told W. The message, according to Eckhaus, was meant to be “sex-positive, body-positive, sexuality-positive,” and the couples—scouted, after failing to recruit via Craigslist, by a friend who goes to orgies—were shot in their own bedrooms, by a solo Shin. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/2 "2017-04-01T18:53:10Z")
“Our clothes are so terrible people can’t wait to tear them off!” That’ll work. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/3 "2017-04-01T19:00:26Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > “Our clothes are so terrible people can’t wait to tear them off!” That’ll work. But well they are still wearing them in the pictures. And it seems to me that “If you wear our clothes, someone will want to tear them off you because they want to sex you” isn’t such a terrible sales pitch. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/4 "2017-04-01T19:12:44Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > But well they are still wearing them in the pictures. And it seems to me that “If you wear our clothes, someone will want to tear them off you because they want to sex you” isn’t such a terrible sales pitch. I was being a little facetious. But still, it’s hard to tell what the clothes look like, which I’d think would be what the consumer would want. And people want to have sex with the models because they are young and attractive. They could be wearing a ratty t shirt and jeans from Target and people would still want to have sex with them. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/5 "2017-04-01T19:19:49Z")
I’m not “okay” with anything in the fashion industry. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/6 "2017-04-01T20:25:44Z")
I find it in bad taste. But it’s April 1st; let’s see if this concept is still there in a few days. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/7 "2017-04-01T20:34:21Z")
I wonder where they got _that_ idea? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/8 "2017-04-01T20:40:45Z")
It may or may not be a April Fools joke but it is a legit fashion house > **[Collections](https://eckhauslatta.com/collections)** > > Eckhaus Latta SS20 Delivery One Now Available. Free Domestic Shipping on Orders over $250. Shop Now. ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/9 "2017-04-01T20:49:39Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Re the article link below. Would you be OK with your kid thumbing through a magazine at the orthodontist’s office and they page across these ads? I’m not too exercised about it, but weirdly the pixellation almost makes them _more_ transgressive and more potently sexual than a straight up photo of the act. The pics are very nicely done. > > No nudity but there are huge chunky pixels where the nudity was As a side note, pretty much every kid born since, what, 1985? 1990? with access to the internet has probably seen hardcore porn many times in their childhood. Even if they didn’t intentionally click any links, there are all kinds of porn spammers on some scammy websites, porn spam emails, and some message boards - including the largest one in the world, reddit - routinely have pornographic content. So if it causes damage, it’s already done. (I don’t know enough about the subject matter to comment, other than to say that for probably most of the history of humanity, people lived in small groups where there was little privacy) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/10 "2017-04-01T21:20:53Z")
They’ve been beaten to it. Way back in 2007 there was a thread here about a French company called Shai Clothing using a hardcore clip to sell its clothes. > **[Sex sells, but this is ridiculous](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=437856)** > > There have been a few notable cases where comedians have caricatured a real product by creating a more extreme version of it, only to have that version become reality. The most famous is The Onion’s “Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades”. Those... ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ok-with-fashion-ads-of-people-actually-having-sex-with-genitals-pixellated-maybe-nsfw/783518/11 "2017-04-01T21:36:15Z")
There’s so little showing, I don’t find anything to be offended or bothered by. A typical beach picture shows a lot more flesh. It’s cute and a little edgy, pushing at the boundaries…which is fine with me.