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I've always wondered why in the US everyone loses their shit over a tittie app, but in Europe you can have billboards containing nothing but naked breasts advertising a conference.

Source: http://metro.co.uk/2009/09/11/giant-boobs-advert-turns-heads...

Related question: would everyone lose their shit if the app was called GuyStare and was aimed at women to look at hot guys?



It's because sexism only exists in the United States.


No, it doesn't.


(that is the joke you see)


That's just how the world works. I don't understand some parts of the middle east where men are apparently going to "overcome with lust" if they see a woman's ankle or her hair...


>advertising a conference

The art world has a different culture than the business world.


Yes. But a lot of people seeing those ads were business people. Some had business meetings in cafeterias overlooked by those giant boob billboards. A lot of the people were elementary school kids on their way to school.

etc. etc.

It seems if somebody tried to put out a billboard like that in the US the public would be satisfied with nothing less than seppuku.


I'm always amazed about how puritan is United States.


anecdotal evidence in Slovenia != general truth in Europe


Does it count Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands or Italy as Europe?




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