A TV ad for Trojan condoms that portrays a man at a bar as a pig until he returns from the restroom with a condom was rejected by the Fox because, “Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy,” the network wrote to Trojan, the New York Times reported. CBS also rejected the ad, which was accepted by NBC, ABC, and nine cable networks. Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at NYU, told the Times, “It’s so hypocritical for any network in this culture to go all puritanical on the subject of condom use when their programming is so salacious. Copyright © 1995 - 2007 Townnews. read more

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