The Pro-Infidelity Super Bowl Commercial That Got Banned by Fox

The Super Bowl is known for its funny, smart, and even racy commercials. But there's one steamy spot viewers won't be seeing next month: a "discreet" dating service's lingerie-clad add encouraging partners to cheat.

The commercial is for AshleyMadison.com, which calls itself "the world's premiere discreet dating service." Translation: it's a dating service for married people. "Life is short. Have an affair," the site says. It even offers an "affair guarantee."

In order to raise its profile, the company produced a 30-second commercial for next month's Super Bowl. But Fox, which will air this year's game, banned it. SportsGrid describes the ad:

The ad features adult film star Savanna Sampson, who walks into a corporate boardroom and announces that her executive husband has been cheating on her. Cue a montage of everybody hooking up with everybody (yes, there’s even dude-on-mascot smooching). The ad ends with her in a bra, and the tag line “Isn’t it time for AshleyMadison.com?”

“Standards & Practices has deemed the Ashley Madison spot is not acceptable to air on FOX," the website said in a press release.

As SportsGrid suggests, the rejection might not be as much about the content but the idea -- although depicting people having sex in a car is extreme. Now, the site just has to figure out how to recoup the expenses of producing a failed Super Bowl commercial

It's good to know that there are still standards when it comes to network TV.

UPDATE:

According to the Huffington Post this is the second year in a row that Ashley Madison has had a Super Bowl ad rejected.