These MTV-sponsored safe sex ads from Portugal are certainly incendiary, but do they cross a line? Should we be content, as Contexts asks, to conflate a penis with a firearm, even in the name of safe sex advocacy? Two more ads, which are pretty NSFW, are after the jump.I like how attention-grabbing they are, but I'm on the fence about their potential impact on women who've been victims of sexual violence, as well as their implications about men-are men reduced to perpetrators of sexual violence? Don't men have a responsibility to protect themselves too?
Another less violent (though also even less safe for work) campaign can be seen here.
Another less violent (though also even less safe for work) campaign can be seen here.