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Taxi TV Rejects Orgy Ad, Losing Even More Viewers
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Jen Carlson
Published Aug 22, 2012
Modified Aug 22, 2012
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When Brian Atwood's new store opened on Madison Avenue, even the building it was housed in wouldn't run his racy ad, which shows one Victoria's Secret model wrapped around two naked men, while sucking on a pair of leopard print stilettos. It's nothing we haven't seen in an Calvin Klein ad before, but the building rejected it at first (they later greenlit a revised version, according to the NY Post).
The shoe designer also made a film from the pornographic photo shoot, which he hoped to run on Taxi TV. The paper writes, "The film takes the orgy allusions even further by throwing in a bank of TV screens playing porn... a PG-version was also reportedly rejected by taxi TV," though they may air some behind-the-scenes shots as a teaser. Even if it means Taxi TV will keep getting turned off, it's probably for the best that people aren't watching porn in the back seats of cabs.
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