"In a long-running Australian ad for Maltesers chocolates, two women
looking for something
“naughty” to do position their sleeping boyfriends in a cuddling position and giggle and the groggy guys kiss one another — a scene that sparked controversy.
Australian TV viewers sent in several complaints about the ad, but the Advertising Standards Board defended the ad in a decision reached late last month, Business Insider reported.
“[T]he advertisement is intended to be a humorous and is a lighthearted practical joke,” the board wrote in its report, dismissing complaints against the ad.
In its case file, the board notes the variety of complaints it received, including the complaint of one viewer who claimed the advertisement would “turn young people gay”:
both of them have done what is detestable.
Leviticus 20:13
“naughty” to do position their sleeping boyfriends in a cuddling position and giggle and the groggy guys kiss one another — a scene that sparked controversy.
Australian TV viewers sent in several complaints about the ad, but the Advertising Standards Board defended the ad in a decision reached late last month, Business Insider reported.
“[T]he advertisement is intended to be a humorous and is a lighthearted practical joke,” the board wrote in its report, dismissing complaints against the ad.
In its case file, the board notes the variety of complaints it received, including the complaint of one viewer who claimed the advertisement would “turn young people gay”:
I find it very offensive that while I’m watching tv with my child that an ad with a man kiss another man to come on to try and sell chocolates just like smoking and drinking alcohol leads to young people to do these things I feel strong that advertising homosexuals is try to turn young people gay.Other complaints claimed the ad was anti-gay, including this one:
The two women place their boyfriends in a sexual/suggestive position while they are asleep. They are seen to kiss. The two women then laugh at what they have done. This ad is offensive because it continues to perpetuate the idea that being gay or male closeness is something to be ridiculed and laughed at." TheBlazeIf a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman,
both of them have done what is detestable.
Leviticus 20:13