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Naked Woman Billboard ruled unnacceptable – NZPA

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NZPA 11/00/2010

The billboard image of a naked woman on all fours with a large arrow provocatively placed below her and preceded by the words “entrance this way” was an unacceptable way to advertise the Erotica Lifestyles Expo, the Advertising Standards Authority decided.

The Erotica Expo, promoted by [the hardcore porn company] Eden Digital and its former director, porn tycoon Steve Crow, is an adult entertainment convention held annually. Steve Crow resigned from the company in May. [John Malcolm Carr has remained on as its sole director]. 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4011581/Naked-woman-billboard-ruled-unacceptable 

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Steve Crow now claims offensive Erotica Expo billboard was stolen

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PORN KING SOUNDS OFF OVER FLIERS: Jonathan How and Lee Matthews The Manawatu Standard 27 April 2010

Commercial rivalries boiled over outside the Erotica Expo at the weekend, as porn king Steve Crow and a Palmerston North sex shop owner clashed over the handing out of fliers. The R18 Shop owner Gordon Arcus was giving out fliers about his shop outside the Convention Centre-held expo at 1pm yesterday, when Mr Crow and two staff members approached him. [Read more…]

Steve Crow forced to remove offensive sleazy Erotica Expo billboard

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Palmerston North Mayor Jono Naylor ordered the billboard outside the Erotica Lifestyles Expo held at the Palmerston North Convention Centre (23-25 April) to be removed after a complainant pointed out to him that the IMAGE on the billboard had previously been deemed “offensive and inappropriate for display on outdoor media, such as billboards” in a 2005 decision issued by the Advertising Standards Authority. [Read more…]