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This is a seriously messed up ad. I know that sex can sell blueberry chewing gum, but the old adage is really beginning to push the limits of common sense. I’ve seen a few ads lately on American Television that made me question my ow level of liberalism. This particular ad is for Australian audiences. The Ad was the winner of a competition by Toyota to promote the new Toyota Yaris. The spot that won is a spot filled with pornographic sexual innuendo between a father and a young man who has come to take his daughter out. It even throws in a little incest: “She can take a good pounding in any direction.” That’s the father talking about his daughter.

Needless to say, women are not happy about this. However, the ad outraged both men and women, and Toyota pulled the ad and apologized.

Meanwhile, here in a America, there are a few ads that have blown my mind. Sadly, and it shocks me that I feel this way, I don’t believe these should have ever been allowed to air –mainly because I have seen them on channels and at hours where young children could see them. I think we need to let kids have innocence for as long as they possibly can. They’re already bombarded with far too much as it is.