Is This Picture of a Bikini-Clad Woman Too Sexy for a Billboard? Apparently, Yes
- Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:38pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Take a look at this ad. Do you think it’s too steamy for a billboard?
Some people in the California town of Auburn think so. The billboard, promoting a tanning salon company, went up Tuesday. By Thursday, it was vandalized when someone covered it with a black tarp and spray painted the words “no porn in our town” on it:
“There is nothing pornographic about the image at all. It shows a beautiful tan on a confident women. It’s a very classy image,” Jeremy McCain, media director for California Sun, the company behind the advertisement, told the Sacramento Bee.
“If you go out to the lake or the beach, women wear bikinis all the time. It’s a very conservative bikini,” he added.
But apparently not everyone agrees. Not only is the vandal obviously upset, but his message must have resonated with others. Thursday afternoon the ad was taken down and replaced with an animal adoption sign:
According to Fox40 in Sacramento, the sign sits near an elementary school.
“My goodness, we are a very conservative family with two daughters and a young son,” California Sun owner Mike Blore told the station.
Now that the ad has been taken down, he’s upset. According to him, it wasn’t his decision to remove it.
“Here‘s a company that doesn’t hesitate to put a Viagra ad in a children’s show,” said Blore, referring to CBS Outdoor, the company that owns the billboard. It didn’t return e-mails from FOX40 about why the image was replaced.
“Had somebody just called us up and said, ‘Hey can you guys re-think what you’re doing,’ we wouldn’t be upset,” Blore added.
You can watch Fox40′s video report below:
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Comments (223)
Countrygirl1362
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:58pmHave seen men and women on the beach with much less on.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 5:13pmBut have you been on the beach with…oh never mind..lol
Report Post »republic2011
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:55pmProbably some muslims…
Report Post »viewthis
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:53pmCrazy stuff, if this offends anyone they may want to consider disconnecting cable and never listen to a radio. Dancing with the stars and any reality show has more exposure than this.As does most any other network tv show. Grow up and find something important to worry about. Lord knows there is enough available.
Report Post »Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:53pmI’m a conservative but see nothing wrong with this, it‘s nothing you wouldn’t see on any beach aside from a nude one…. these are the people that make all Christians seem to be prudes and intolerant of anything to do with the flesh of the human body.
However, it would be more appropriate in a magazine or somewhere where young children can’t see it but then again how many kids are driving up and down the highways not in the backseat fighting over which Disney DVD for mom and dad to put in? ;)
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:53pmJust picture Helen Thomas or Hillary in that Bikini. Everybody would want it taken down. See we can agree..
Report Post »viewthis
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:54pmI just lost my lunch!
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:38pmThanks for nothing!
Report Post »Strosity
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:50pmThere’s a difference between conservative and mentally ill. The latter is the case here, unfortunately.
Report Post »temple62
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:50pmNot bad looking and much “better behavior” than having one of Rachel Maddow laying on her desk wearing the Buddy Holly glasses!
Report Post »harumph
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:49pmWhatever.
Report Post »niki
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:48pmI dictionary that I looked up the word pornography in a few years ago gave the following definition:
“Something that sexually arouses or is meant to.”
Is that girl dressed like that to grab attention from men and to be sexually arousing? YES. If they weren’t trying to sexually arouse that would have put up a different photo. And no I’m sorry, that bikini is not conservative. How utterly ridiculous.
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:54pmOh lord. Get over yourself. Lighten up!
Report Post »jeronadams
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 5:19pmYou must never have any fun at all eh?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:46pmMy name is Anthony Weiner and I think it’s fine.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:54pmTony should you be here. go back to the other
Report Post »artical PLEASE.
USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:25pmThats OK , I have pictures of Edith, Got some of Meathead my Wife may
Report Post »want one..
NormanDeArmond
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:46pmI shouldn’t of clicked on this. She is not out of beer commercial norms and stds. Beer drinkers don’t look like that or date her though. What a beauty
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:45pmhmmmm….blaze …nothing really important going on in the world today ? yeah I know …shes pretty hot ….dang …I gotta tell you that your news headlines are not as important today as they are over here at :
Report Post »http://www.millennium-ark.net/index.html
no it is not my webpage but the issues are far more then the Hot Chick
USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:43pmI like it
Report Post »Can I get one for my yard.
If this is porn ,you should never turn on your TV again
publicuss
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:42pm“Okay, I gotta come clean, that’s my sister and I just wanted to get her some public exposure. But, she looks good in those boots, right?” So said the agents twitter ********_******_**@twitter.com.
She does look good in those boots, but too much exposure for young kids. Local community standards should always apply in local advertising. Should you choose to dissent, you can move away from the community…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:46pmWhat boots?
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:41pmI think people are fed up & their not going to take it anymore!! Enough,.
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:41pmSome people just have nothing better to do than complain. How can this possibly offend anyone? I mean I’m disgusted every time I go to Walmart and see 300lb women in tights, but I keep my mouth shut. It really isn’t that hard!
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:44pm“they” say the first look is to gather information, it’s the length of the look that will get you in trouble! and you‘re right it’s not that hard…………..wait, what’s not that hard?lol?
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:40pmGimme a break Blaze, with all that is going on you choose this to highlight…
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:45pmThis is a fair story. It helps people see how silly we are becoming. Most times when you highlight a story like this there is a change of opinion due to public response. Besides they can’t just run stories about GBTV all day everyday!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:38pmthere’s got to be more to this than meets the eye.
Report Post »There was nothing wrong with the original billboard, and as far as I am concerned, the problem lies with the vandal…and when it comes to mobs and vandalism…you need look no further than your nearest crackpot leftist.
But why would they be offended?
Doesn’t make sense.
chfields62
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:37pmJust more proof of liberal insanity……….
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 6:41pmWell at some point we need to teach our children morals. I for one when I see these beautiful women, have to remember lust is a sin. Agreed this is not porno I know I have seen porno. But where do we draw the line? I still have to look at these things. How can I teach my children to be modest, when they see the world around them exposed? Freedom is awesome, but anyone who thinks America is free has rocks in there heads. Everyone is forced to buy and do what our elites say. That is not freedom. That is slavery.
Report Post »foobear
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:29pmLiberal Insanity: Teaching gender-bending to 3rd graders.
Conservative Insanity: Declaring a woman in a bikini to be “porn”.
Some people have said the model was insane for wearing boots, but lemme tell ya, those beach sands can be HOT.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:36pmMaybe they should replace that billboard with the one of the Coppertone little girl with the puppy pulling down her panties… that one seemed to be okay…. which is weird.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:58pmThat was in a different time in America. Very few if anybody thought anything about the Copper Tone ads. Most people thought it was cute. Maybe read Ann Colter’s book, “The Pornification of America”.
Report Post »Didn’t we just see a poll about what Americans thought about the rise or fall of morals in America? Most thought moral values weere on the rise……I think not!
wordweaver
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:35pmI’d be more concerned about promoting tanning salons and the vanity they promote at the expense of risk to skin cancer than I would be about that photo. It may be a distraction to some drivers, however.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:50pmI think you hit on the real issue with why they want to see the billboard go away. Liberals think tanning salons promote skin cancer and therefore raise medical costs nation wide. That is why they passed a tax on tanning salons in an effort to appear like they are concerned and doing something about health care costs………RIDICULOUS!!!!
Report Post »Since when did Californians care about showing alot of skin? And this is not as bad as many other advertisements selling everything else.
kryptonite
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:10pmRational Man,
Report Post »You figured it out. Thanks.
Well-Paid Troll
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:33pmWhat would AYN RAND do?
What would Paul Ryan do?
Report Post »beckwasfox
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:25pmNot too well paid, I hope. Food stamps and welfare should be about the right speed for the sophistication of your comments thus far.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:45pmBECKWASFOX
Report Post »Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:25pm
Not too well paid, I hope. Food stamps and welfare should be about the right speed for the sophistication of your comments thus far.
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LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Showtime
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 5:59pm@BeckWasFox ~
So ROFLMSO!!!
Report Post »Funny! And true!
avenger
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:07pmI know what I would do..
Report Post »buzdburd
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:16pmWhat would Anthony Wiener do?
Report Post »ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:33pmHot girl on billboard….nothing wrong here!
Report Post »Well-Paid Troll
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:41pm…especially if you Air-Brush the family Christmas Card photos….
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:47pmFrom all the horrible things in CA this is what bothered them ?
Report Post »Bring her back !!!!!!!!!!!!!
fitsgibbons
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:48pmI agree!
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:49pmI still want her phone number…
Report Post »tasmanianwabbit
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:49amMe like too!
Report Post »Well-Paid Troll
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:30pmObviously this is a liberal family trying to hide a fearless conservative strong woman. (But Sarah is better looking and also fearless so just put her picture up, and take it to the supreme Court if they cover it up!)
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:26pmactually, it wasn’t even a little girl bare butt like the old 1950s 1960s Sea&Ski suntan lotion ad. But times have changed and people are sick of what the deviate democrats have pushed on us and our CHILDREN.
Report Post »the town can do what it wants. including go back to the signs on either end of town we used to have in our small IL farm towns.. of course it can be slightered altered to read :
” DON’T LET THE SUN SET ON YOUR NANNY STATE/DEVIATE BUTT IN THIS TOWN’
publicuss
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:30pmDitto!
Report Post »Well-Paid Troll
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:31pmThose darn Liberals! They obviously are trying to put their so-called morals ahead of honest Profits!
I hope some Christians come and knock their lights out.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:39pmI don’t see any problem, but it IS in sight of an elementary school.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:42pmThat is nothing compared to the billboards you see in Las Vegas.
Report Post »I thought being in California and all it would be alot worse. I have seen much worse and this one is way more ‘tasteful’ than many I have seen. It’s just a bathing suit. Not a row of bare butts in a thong and topless, like I have seen on billboards in Vegas. Evidence of why they call it ‘Sin City’ I guess.
It is advertising a tanning salon, so they are show off a tan.
All that being said, I don’t like sex in advertising…….AT ALL!!!…..Or tanning salons…………
Patrick in AZ
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:44pmI don’t think it is pornographic, but I do believe the town has a right to keep it out of their town. The question is, does “the town” really want it gone or just a few?
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:47pmIt‘s their town if they don’t like it, don’t have it.
But anyone calling this billboard pornographic needs to be euthanized as soon as possible. Their stupidity might catch on and become a religion. Next stop burkhas.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:49pmAt Disneyland, the copperton girl with the dog pulling down her suit has been ‘updated’ and the suit is completely still on, but the dog has the corner of it.
Report Post »I don’t know if Disney required this, or if coppertone has ‘updated’ their own ads.
Regardless, I think we’re going a bit far here, folks.
Is it sexy? Yes, is it PORN? NO WAAY.
aragona
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:53pmThe only problem I see with it is its proximity to the school. The billboard itself isn’t offensive to me. However, if the community apparently takes issue with it and wants it taken down, therefore it was appropriate that it was taken down.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:55pmyowsah
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:57pmBetween the crusty ole Bible Thumpers & The local Boomer ‘Depends Undergarment’ crowd, a lot of skin provokes a lot of noise.
There is nothing wrong with that picture. She is actually quite pretty. Crusty people should really get over (the lack of) themselves.
And let’s not forget…”If thy dirty, guilty mind offends thee….pluck it out.”
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Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:59pmDid not vote.
Report Post »Choices are at the far end of the spectrum. One choice should have been “Racey should have been placed in an other location if available”. OMG 30/30 Years/lbs. Maybe they realized she was not a Democrat
SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:00pm^____^____^
Thats G rated for Pete’s sake. They are so concerned for what kids see they better check and see what their kids are watching on TV and looking at on the internet. Oh and none of those protesting better show their faces at a beach or pool in anything but a 1920′s-30′s circa bathing suit!
Kids see even more skin on a beach or pool… this is insane but its all part of the plan. You will see things like this continually grow “For Your Protection” because you are all stupid and dont know whats best for you… “thought criminals”
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:04pmCome on. Porn?? I’d be more concerned with what those elementary kids are finding on the Internet.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:17pmThe beautiful woman pictured in the bikini looks great to me but a sign is local and it should be up to the local citizens to do what they want to do. The picture, in the proper place (i.e not in front of a church, kindergarten, or on an Amish farm), is not pornographic and should offend no one just as wearing a bikini at the beach is great but is totally out of place in church, school, and many other places.
Report Post »TC
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:24pmThat is a perfect body. Probably digitally enhanced but perfect. Probably not good next to an elementary school. I would have not objected as a kid! Maybe not placed in the right place but she has all the right places! : )
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:32pm.
Report Post »Vandalized by Fat Chicks would be my guess…………..
ComeAndTakeThis
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:35pmBillboards like this are put up by the car insurance companies. Just sayin’
Report Post »1stAmendment
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:36pmI don’t want my children exposed to such pictures!!
Report Post »But I don’t believe in going violent to bring out a point!!
Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:37pmThe person that did that is usually the type that screams the loudest that he’s a good “Christian” and at the same time judging everyone else to be not as “good” or “religious” or “Godly” or worthy of God’s notice as he is. I am a very conservative “Christian” and I would NEVER post a picture like this but at the same time I don’t try to force my own personal beliefs on others so that they can become as pious as me.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:39pm@Patrick in AZ– You say it’s not pornographic.I say there need to be an agreed upon definition of pornographic. But who would be on the deciding committee. Larry Flint? Billy Graham?. Senator Weiner?. I’m sure there would be a full amount of volunteers available for that discussion. !
Report Post »Rogue Elephant
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:51pmIT’S THE BOOTS! Not the bikini!
This is California, you know. The boots remind them of GW Bush! You want to really drive ‘em crazy? Put up a billboard of Sarah Palin in a ibkini, wearing cowboy boots!
Report Post »single stack
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 5:43pmThat was the Coppertone ad.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 5:48pmRogue Elephant
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:51pm
IT’S THE BOOTS! Not the bikini!
Them boots are made for knockin’.
Sorry
not really
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 5:52pm@Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 3:39pm
I don’t see any problem, but it IS in sight of an elementary school.
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How’s that a problem? If the parents take the kids to the beach, they are going to see women in bikinis. Heck! As long as I had the figure for a bikini, I wore them. My second husband would not let me have a one-piece, much less wear one!
And although I weigh what I did when I graduated from high school and was a life guard, I don’t wear bikinis now because “the bikini look” has a way of backfiring after gravity takes its toll. We older women need some of our “awesomness” covered up!
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 6:19pmIt’s the boots! Who wears boots to the beach? That girl should be ashamed of herself for wearing boots to the beach! And the posture? She could get carple tunnel if she always rests like that. Don’t even get me started on the hair products that are harming our mother the earth. And really, who lays on a rock rather than a nice sandy beach? That rock could be permanently damaged from the body oils that could erode it over the years. This billboard is filled with so many things bad that it had to be removed. Think of the children.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 6:20pmit must have been the boots, that pushed them over the edge, there foot fetish and all ya know.
Report Post »101
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 6:20pmThat would make a nice wall mural for my man cave, damn that’s a great thought start a business “Man Cave Murals”
Cannot believe they ripped down a beautiful sign to show dogs that are going to be euthanize
Report Post »ManThong
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 6:43pmStrange, pretty girl in a bikini on a billboard is too much for some in the state that is the homosexual and porn capital of the United States.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:28pmI need her phone number…
Report Post »click_name_4_impeachment
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:30pmMe personally….i don’t think there is anything wrong with it, but it is obvious that some people do feel that way, and reacted…..Now it is up to that company to decide what it’s next steps should be….for that reason i can not participate in the poll…..
Judging by the pictures it doesn’t look as though there was real vandalism….just covered up…..if so there is no cost in fixing it….just uncover it if you think that is the proper advertisement…..
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:35pmI don’t think she shows as much as Weiners full monty. There might be more pics out there, maybe we’ll see one of Weiner laying on his side. LOL
Sorry couldn’t resist
Report Post »*************************
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:02pmSo, it WAS pornographic after all …
Report Post »buzdburd
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:11pmCoppertone sunscreen. God I’m old!
Report Post »NJD
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:30pmThis doesn’t bother me much, more of a distraction than anything.
What upsets me is the billboards in Spanish, that upsets me. English comprende?
Report Post »HumbleMan
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:04pmHey trolls … and there are many … go have a Weiner roast … and don’t save any leftovers. You eat them all.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:28pmCoppertone was a suntan lotion not a “sunscreen” back in the day.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:12pmI see no problem with the billboard
Report Post »what4
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:06amYep…lots of old farts and fat chicks in Auburn, I know I lived there!
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:50amHome of the porn industry…………………wtf!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:59amIt’s not porn but it may cause a few accidents!!!
Report Post »tasmanianwabbit
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:47amI remember the Coppertone billboard on the way to the beach on highway 101 in California, It showed the little girl with the puppy. It was animated, and the puppy would pull down the bottom of her bikini and show the tan line on her rear. We thought it was cute. Nowadays, someone would scream “child porn”. There were also the “Burma Shave” signs. This would be in the ‘60’s.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 2:01amI’m with TOWER and many others here, I see no problem with it, but we don’t allow billboards at all here in Hawaii, which is nice considering the scenery.
Report Post »JustaThought
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:59amI am surprised that PETA didn’t jump on the band wagon since the model is obviously wearing leather boots.
(And I can’t believe I actually looked at the boots.)
If this is porn then Anthony Weiner should be thrown in jail.
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:35pmIf it causes someone to have LUST in their heart, then IT IS THE SAME THING as fornication or adultery has already sinned:
JESUS HIMSELF SAID IN Matthew 5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:12pmThese people are just as bad as the Muslims, and the taliban are…..it is called free speech. Go to a public beach, and see what is there,
This country is an assylum, and it is being run by the Mental Patients
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 12:05amWhat else is new in California. If they can find a way to make a stink about something, then they do it.
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