 Virgin
Stripping: Mobile
Company Asks Teen
Girls to Take
Clothes Off
Virgin Mobile is
asking teens to take
off their clothes
and strip in front
of the camera then
submit the videos
for public airing.
Oh, but it's all in
the name of charity.
They asked kids to
post videos of
themselves stripping
to music. In
exchange, clothing
companies would
provide donations of
new clothes based on
the number of times
the videos were
viewed. Called
"Strip2Clothe," the
campaign carries the
tagline, "You take
off yours, we donate
ours."
There is no full
nudity allowed.
That hasn't stopped
parents from
expressing anger
over Virgin's
request to have
their children strip
for other kids and
some have gone as
far as to call the
ads "sexually
exploitive".
Ironically, the
United Kingdom would
not permit similar
advertisements for
Virgin's online
gambling brand.
The Advertising
Standards Authority,
Great Britain's
self-regulatory arm
of the country's
advertising
industry, has been
closely observing
the ads placed by
gambling and casino
interests.
Stripping teens
certainly wouldn't
make the cut.
The "Authority"
won't even allow
salacious sex crazed
adult dwarfs (a
la a Paddy Power ad)
nor did a recent ad
by William Hill fly.
Well, actually it
did...but Great
Britain's "media
police" grounded it.
That advert depicted
a woman hurrying her
husband off to work
by moving the hands
of the kitchen clock
forward, before
running upstairs to
play William Hill
online bingo and
stating " I get mine
the minute he's out
the door". She later
moved the hands of
the clock back
saying "Doesn't time
fly."
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website.
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Payton O'Brien,
Gambling911.com
Senior Editor
POBrien@CostiganMedia.com
Originally published
July 16, 2008 10:56
pm EST
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