Microsoft Quickly Revises "Sexting" Ad For Kin Phone

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...'"

Comments

LOLwut?

[PhxBlue]

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"?

Re:LOLwut?

[lul_wat]

Hello? Also this ad is terrible. Atleast cover some of the features of the device, I can already put my current cellphone up my shirt o that's not a selling point

Was it hairy!?

[Merakis]

Mother's hide your daughters. I hear 'The Nippler' is in town.

Uptight much?

[Rog7]

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.
 

Re:Uptight much?

[gmhowell]

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.

Fucking Puritans

[QuantumG]

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.

Re:Fucking Puritans

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Depends on the man-tit

[Anonymous Coward]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Gynecomastia_001.jpg

Sexting with kin?

[bipbop]

Sexting with kin? Now your incest can have more manboobular visuals? What?

This keeps happening

[Gadget_Guy]

I am sure that it is part of the advertising plan to be "forced" to withdraw sensational ads as a way of gaining extra publicity. I have never seen this ad, and only once heard about the Kin phone, but now I have been exposed (oh dear) to the campaign as a news item.

I am sure that if nobody complained then the ad executives would plant their own complaints in the news just to get people to talk about it. How many times do you hear news reports about people being outraged without ever saying who those people are. I imagine that it is rare to need to resort to doing their own complaints, because the people who get offended by this are so predictably vocal. And who cares if you piss them off, because the target market are young people who think sexting is OK and who would be quite happy to rebel against the prudes.

Re:Why is this even an issue?

[AlamedaStone]

Seriously? Is people who think like this a large enough fraction of their market base that they actually feel like they have to appease them?

The only reason to defend sexting is if you like child pornography. You aren't a ... pedophile... are you?

I mean, think of the children.

The children know that Freedom is what we believe in our hearts to be morally right! And we here in America love our freedom, no matter what some experts would like us to believe! After all, 9/11 happened because they hated our Freedom, so anyone that can't think of the children might as well be terrorists. It's about Family Values.

Family, Faith and Freedom are what separate us and make us the greatest nation in the world!

God Bless America.