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Microsoft Quickly Revises "Sexting" Ad For Kin Phone

Posted by kdawson on from the anti-midas-touch dept.

theodp writes "Microsoft's Kin mobile phone project came under fire as Consumer Reports and others pointed out that a promotional video looked like an inappropriate endorsement of 'sexting,' prompting a quick edit and an apologetic tweet. 'The video,' observed Consumer Reports, 'includes a downright creepy sequence [beginning around 0:33] in which a young man is shown putting a Kin under his shirt and apparently snapping a picture of one of his naked breasts. The breast is then shown on the phone's screen, just before the guy apparently sends it to someone. Next we see the face of a young woman, seemingly the recipient, with an amused expression...'"

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  1. LOLwut? by PhxBlue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Okay, I could see a problem if it were a female breast ... but who the fuck thinks that sending a picture of a male breast is "sexting"?

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  2. Uptight much? by Rog7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh good lord, how uptight does our society need to be?

    It's a contradiction too, because sexualized youth seems to be perfectly acceptable as long as it's from a Mickey Mouse Club alumni that promises abstinence.
     

    1. Re:Uptight much? by gmhowell · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No shit. Considering how often we hear about porn moving technology, how big 'The Valley' is, and so forth, can we please shed this neo-Puritanical bullshit in the US?

      Guess what: normal, healthy people like to fuck. Normal, healthy people (especially men) like to look at other normal, healthy people. Just because your version of the FSM said it was all "eww, icky, gross" does not mean the rest of us should suffer.

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  3. Fucking Puritans by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People have bodies.. get over it.

    Sexting is a "phenomena" of prudes having to face the fact that not everyone experiences the same reservations as them about nudity. No-one is forcing them to participate.

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    1. Re:Fucking Puritans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - Henry Mencken