Thursday, July 21, 2005
Price check in aisle 5
Freizeit Magazine, a German lifestyle mag, sold out in a day after offering readers vouchers for a free sex session at a brothel in Austria. Readers said they were, hmm, shocked when they opened the mag to find a full page advert for a brothel in Salzburg.
Prostitution is, however, legal in both countries and the ad promised "half an hour free sex with a lady of your choice" for anyone who cut out the coupon and brought it with them on their next visit.
Critics claim that the magazine is supposed to be about leisure and entertainment activities and not one big advertisment for indecent and sexist material. No truth to the rumour that these critics read Playboy for the jokes.
He said the advertisement was "in no way salacious neither in content nor visually", and accused complainants of "nitpicking". Owners of the sex club report a boom in business since running the adverts.
Prostitution is, however, legal in both countries and the ad promised "half an hour free sex with a lady of your choice" for anyone who cut out the coupon and brought it with them on their next visit.
Critics claim that the magazine is supposed to be about leisure and entertainment activities and not one big advertisment for indecent and sexist material. No truth to the rumour that these critics read Playboy for the jokes.
He said the advertisement was "in no way salacious neither in content nor visually", and accused complainants of "nitpicking". Owners of the sex club report a boom in business since running the adverts.