American Apparel, the clothing store notorious for it's sleazy advertising and an oversexed CEO named Dov Charney who looks like a 1970's porn star, is in the news again. They've always been known to sell sex with their salacious ad campaigns featuring young women in exploitative poses, but now they are selling a different kind of sex - the kind a woman experiences with herself. Believe it or not, they are selling vibrators. And, not just any vibrator, but the Ferrari of erotic massagers - the Hitachi Magic Wand, a "back massager" that can be used in (cough)...other ways.
(Via The Frisky)
Has American Apparel gone too far? Should sex toys be available in mainstream clothing stores? What do you think?
2 comments:
I've seen the ads on, among other places, the back of The L Magazine. The models always appear to be somewhere between 12 and 15 years old and give off a distinct imported-sex-slave vibe. Still, the clothing does look really cool. Recently, I visited the Court Street store in Brooklyn and determined that the products were substandard, although I didn't try them on. Do we know if they are going to sell the vibrators in the store? I'm assuming there would be no try-before-you-buy policy...icky company...thumbs down.
I don't like the ads at all. They have an underage porn quality to them which repulses me. The CEO has numerous sexual harrassment suits against him. He has been very open in the press about having sexual relations with his employees. Ick.
I believe the vibrators are only available online. I'm not sure if they will ever hit the retail stores.
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