A television commercial for a male body spray has been taken off the air in India, after causing a storm on social media. 9News
for a male body spray has been taken off the air in India, after critics said it made light of gang rape.
Only when the woman turns round does it become clear they are talking about the body spray - which one of the men then takes from a store shelf and uses. "This advertisement is clearly promoting sexual violence against women and girls and promoting a rapist mentality among men. The advertisement is cringeworthy and should not be allowed to be played on mass media," Swati Maliwal, chairwoman of the Delhi Commission for Women, wrote to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Saturday.Within 24 hours, the ministry had taken the commercial off the air and asked Twitter and YouTube to remove it from their platforms.
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