The Brouhaha Over Virgin Mobile's Wrapping Paper.

Alan Dean got upset when he took a closer look at the free Virgin Mobile wrapping paper his 12-year-old daughter got from Canada's cinema chains Famous Players.

The wrapping paper, part of an advertising campaign by Virgin Mobile Canada, depicts stylized angels kissing and sexually touching each other. The male angel is touching the female's breast, while the female angel has her hand on the male's genitals.

Famous Players has since pulled the wrapping paper from its promotion. http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.html?id=c1806e52-9ced-4cb6-8486-7cb2d887a2ca&k=53824


Hahaha if you look closely you can notice the other angels...The women holding their hands up towards their mouth in astonishment and the male angels giving a thumbs up. Ok I feel sorry for the girl who unknowingly and innocently bought this paper but it is pretty funny.
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On the contrary; I think it was intended. I can just imagine the designer who thought it would be an absolute riot to slip this one by people and then proceed to laugh at people who might ultimately express concern. They were probably trying to make some sort of point to deride or put down the Religous Right. I think this is supported by the look at the expression on the red-head's face.

I also think it was delibrately kept just subtle enough so that they can additionally support themselves by saying "oh, look at those right-winged freaks and their backwards forms of thinking! So uptight and self-righteous!" Not in so many words or so blatantly, mind you, but... it was designed for someone like you to come along and go "oh come on."

I think it's delibrately construed to be at least poking fun at traditional religious ideals (in an insulting fashion, not a friendly one) - and to call it 'unintended' insults both those with such ideals and the designer. I'm not trying to be spectacularly sensational about it, or anything; these attacks are rather routine, though they don't always get this sort of publicity thrown at it. The art and design community is chock full of people driving various agendae such as this one, with varying degrees of subtlety, and it gets to be a trifle annoying after a little while.

And even if "it's not like hardcore porn or something", I don't think that's quite the point. The war in Iraq is not like World War II or anything, yet plenty of people take issue with it. While we're at it, Bush is not like Hitler and Kerry is not like a bistable multivibrator.

In short, I'll just reiterate what I said before: *sigh*.
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Actually, that was the funnest part of a certain computer science class. Bistable multivibrators (flip-flops) are electronic components build of transistors, and there's even a specific kind called the J-K flip-flop. :D
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