India bans suggestive TV ads
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India’s broadcast regulators have ordered television networks to stop the airing of ‘overtly sexual’ deodorant commercials that use females models in suggestive storylines, the Financial Express reported.The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting reportedly announced that they are barring advertisements , which violated the country’s advertising codes.Advertisements that were banned include that of a woman attracted by a man’s deodorant that she starts unbuttoning her blouse and another in which a woman is drawn to her sweet-smelling brother-in-law.”The depiction and portrayal of women in these ads are overtly sexual,” the ministry was quoted saying. “The ads brim with messages aimed at tickling the libidinous male instincts and portrayal of women as lustily hankering after men.”It described the adverts as “indecent, vulgar and suggestive
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