First ever anti-porn television commercial airing on MTV US

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First ever anti-porn TVCs airing on MTV US

The Indiantelevision.com Team

(9 June 2003 1:00 pm)

MUMBAI: This is an ad campaign that should make the likes of Playboy and Hustler sit up and take notice. The 30 second television commercial (TVC) uses a sense of humour to address the sensitive issue of damage caused to minds by pornographic content. The commercial "Porn stunts your growth" is sponsored by the non-profit ministry of XXXchurch.com, which was founded by Mike Foster and Craig Gross, two ordained ministers.

The message that the TVC looks to put across is that porn screws up your life spiritually and relationship wise as well. The new commercial campaign will target a young male demographic and run in southern California during The Howard Stern Show, The Man Show, and on MTV.

While these shows and companies are using porn and sex to promote themselves, many companies like Wal-Mart, Pay Pal and General Motors are getting out of the sex business because of public backlash an official release informs.

The need for the TVC which will run till 16 June has come as a result of recent statistics which show that 60 per cent of website visits are sexual in nature and over 30 million people log on to porn sites every day (Yankelovich Partners Study).

XXXchurch.com has used websites, billboards, airplane flyovers, and now television commercials to get their anti-porn message out

The ministry’s website claims to have attracted over 25 million hits, with 50,000 new visitors every week, and has 40,000 men using their free anti-porn software, X3watch, which is available for download at the XXXchurch.com website.

[Bigg Red]

Excellent!

[Paleo Conservative]

While these shows and companies are using porn and sex to promote themselves, many companies like Wal-Mart, Pay Pal and General Motors are getting out of the sex business because of public backlash an official release informs.

Does this mean no more El Caminos with astroturf in the truck bed?

[CaptSkip]

"...recent statistics which show that 60 per cent of website visits are sexual in nature and over 30 million people log on to porn sites every day (Yankelovich Partners Study)."

OK, I'll get it started.

Similar results have been noted by "STROKelstein and Associates".

[VeritatisSplendor]

I never got the astroturf. Any woman willing to put out on astroturf is nuts.

Mrs VS

[jlogajan]

The ministry’s website claims to have ... 40,000 men using their free anti-porn software, X3watch

Here's a shot of their screen saver:

[Dataman]

Why am I not surprised that you would defend porn?

[finnman69]

The commercial "Porn stunts your growth"

Soooooo its like not eating your vegtables?

[jlogajan]

Why am I not surprised you'd defend the Taliban.

[RaceBannon]

um...MTV IS porn...

[MWS]

So, are you arguing against their free PERSONAL CHOICE not to be exposed to porn? I fail to see how that makes them the Taliban.

I could buy your argument if they were trying to force YOU to use the software, but such doesn't seem to be the case.

[Dataman]

Why am I not surprised you'd defend the Taliban.

It takes a keen mind to equate freedom of speech with the Taliban.

[jlogajan]

It takes a keen mind to equate freedom of speech with the Taliban.

You mean you don't want to ban public "indecency"?

[The Duke]

Porn is the ultimate celebration of selfishness - and it is selfishness that is destroying this nation.

[SquirrelKing]

"I encountered . . . in the local grocery store and the local drug stores the soft-core pornography, then began seeking out hard-core books.
"The most damaging kinds of pornography are those that involve violence and sexual violence. Because the wedding of those two forces, as I know only too well, brings about behavior that is just too terrible to describe.
"I take full responsibility for whatever I've done and all the things that I've done. The question and the issue is how this kind of literature contributed and helped mold and shape these kinds of violent behavior."

- Ted Bundy

[Helms]

This is a joke, right?: AOLTIMEWARNERVIACOMETAL, already are into downloadable, Barely Legal, Hustler Porn On Demand.

IT IS MTV'S SOFT CORE PORN WHICH IS MORE OF A CONCERN AND A PRECURSOR TO ADULT PORN

[Paleo Conservative]

I never got the astroturf. Any woman willing to put out on astroturf is nuts.

Mrs VS

It's hard to believe any woman would put up with Clinton much less his El Camino with Astroturf.

[VeritatisSplendor]

True.

Mrs VS

[BlkConserv]

Great pic. Just another group of busybodies who want to regulate the lives of everyone else.

My wife and I enjoy our subscriptions to Maxim and Stuff magazines. Occasionally when we're in the mood we take a peek at some naughty websites. It hasn't ruined our committment to each other; in fact it has enhanced it.

[KantianBurke]

I have no problems with the ads as they're just that; ads. Don't like'em? Turn the channel. Nor does it look like they're using tax payer dollars. Lighten up Francis.