Naked-Man Ad Riles Catholics NSFW
Naked-Man Ad Riles Hub Catholics
Fitness Company Says Human Body Is Art
BOSTON -- A fitness club ad running in Boston magazine that depicts nuns sketching a naked man has triggered protests among some members of the Bay State's Catholic community.
The ad for the Equinox Fitness Club is running in this month's issue and two Catholic organizations blasted the photo Tuesday, the Boston Herald reported, saying the Catholic League, the Archdiocese of Boston and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts all decried the ad as offensive.
C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts told the Herald the ad "portrays a callous contempt for the sensibility of Catholics."
The fitness company responded with a written statement saying, "Our ad campaigns are based on personal motivation and fantasy and throughout history the body has been considered a form of art."
The company only has one gym in Boston.
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Fitness Company Says Human Body Is Art
BOSTON -- A fitness club ad running in Boston magazine that depicts nuns sketching a naked man has triggered protests among some members of the Bay State's Catholic community.
The ad for the Equinox Fitness Club is running in this month's issue and two Catholic organizations blasted the photo Tuesday, the Boston Herald reported, saying the Catholic League, the Archdiocese of Boston and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts all decried the ad as offensive.
C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts told the Herald the ad "portrays a callous contempt for the sensibility of Catholics."
The fitness company responded with a written statement saying, "Our ad campaigns are based on personal motivation and fantasy and throughout history the body has been considered a form of art."
The company only has one gym in Boston.
Copyright 2008 by TheBostonChannel.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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I'm not what ya call a big fan of the Roman Catholic Church.
But I can see their point.0 -
Is there anything people wont protest for? Get a life. 0 -
The fitness company responded with a written statement saying, "Our ad campaigns are based on personal motivation and fantasy and throughout history the body has been considered a form of art."
I think the only fantasy is that nuns are that hot in real life.0 -
Why are people so easily offended. Who cares what some gym says about you in an ad they run is some random magazine. I'm not sure that whining and complaining to the media is exacltly what he had in mind when he instructed us to turn the other cheek. 0 -
That dude has already turned the other cheek more than a couple of times.
I'm not Catholic, but I find it offensive.0 -
Not cool. 0 -
The nuns at the school I went to looked nothing like that ! 0 -
Perhaps they are complaining about the nuns showing a little leg.
The ad was effective. Who would have heard of them otherwise0 -
its free speech, but poor taste 0 -
imagine if someone said something negative about jews.....BANNED, FIRED, DISGRACED 0 -
They "the church" should be more concerned and reactive about more pressing issues degrading the Catholic Church today. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink
The fitness company responded with a written statement saying, "Our ad campaigns are based on personal motivation and fantasy and throughout history the body has been considered a form of art."
I think the only fantasy is that nuns are that hot in real life.
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Totally poor taste. 0 -
very bad taste, this would have helped
CAN I GET A0 -
Catholics have got to be some of the most interesting people on the planet.
I've always enjoyed their pontificating. Most of it reminds me of a jay out back
during the summer.0 -
Of course this is offensive ... that was the idea ... and from an advertising standpoint it worked and is getting the gym pretty good exposure (no pun intended) for their advertising buck! But anyone with even a slight sense of propriety would realize that this would be offensive to Catholics and therefore should also be offensive to anyone with even a slight sense of propriety.
And as has been said even if you don't find that this is offensive ... it is a demonstration of pretty poor taste. But advertisers are willing to risk that in order to accomplish their objective ... and it worked!
Yes, the nuns are looking pretty good. From the one painting that is visible, it doesn't look they are very good artists, though. Did you notice that they all seem to be the same person? Well maybe not the first one is using here left hand and the second one is using her right? Maybe I'm wrong, and they are all ambidextrous!0 -
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hmm they didnt have an issue with the priests doing this....
C&P from http://www.blacksportsonline.com/zjgrease.html
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE GREASE DOWN
The full body nude grease down was actually introduced to boxing by a Catholic priest named Fernando de Herrera. For a time, he was stationed in New Orleans in the late 1700's. Fernando de Herrera saw the incredible amount of slave fighting tournaments held there and the relentless betting activities of the slave owners. Fernando de Herrera saw the opportunity to make some money and began to promote himself as being able to bless slaves and give them luck while in battle. Slave owners were very superstitious back then and began to take their slaves to the priest by the herd.
Fernando de Herrera would receive the slaves at the St. Louis Cathedral. It was preferred that the slave not be bathed for a week when arriving for the rub down. The slave was accompanied by his master and would be made to remove any clothing and lay down on an altar. Fernando de Herrera would then rub salt, vinegar, and holy water all over the nude body of the slave. Herrera stressed that it was important to reach all crevices and even massage the genitalia, as the fighting slaves would commonly bite each other in the groin. A special combination of salt, vinegar, holy water, and turpentine were used exclusively for the massage of the genitalia in order to toughen the skin there.
Herrera coined his new blessing technique "Manos En Culis". According to Fernando de Herrera, this procedure created a spiritual bond between the fighter, the master, and the priest. Herrera made a fortune from his services and passed the grease down technique to other local priests and several slave masters.
This business became very lucrative for catholic priests in New Orleans and other states and many times they were paid in both money and sexual favors. When some slave masters did not have money to pay for the "blessing", they would offer the priest an effeminate male slave for a weekend of pleasure.
Eventually, some slave owners began to avoid the cost of hiring a priest and started greasing down their slaves by themselves. Initially, it was simple for a master to go to a local Catholic church and buy some holy water from a priest. Eventually the price of holy water rose as the Catholic priests realized that they were being cut out of the equation since the slave owners were rubbing down the fighters themselves.0 -
If the catholic church finds that to be offensive, How do they feel about all of the Bronze nude statues at the Vatican?
Those are pretty hot Nunns!!!!!0 -
gagirl, I would be interested in a source for this story other than BLACKSPORTSONLINE.
Fernando de Herrera lived in Spain from 1534 until 1597 (sixteenth century). The first slaves arrived in New Orleans in 1719 (early eighteenth century).
Could be a different priest named Fernando de Herrera or a different New Orleans or a different group of slaves, but I suspect BLACKSPROTSONLINE might have exaggerated something, even though they have never been known to do that before.0 -
Another thread to bash Catholics. Poor taste. I thought this forum had figured out not to do Religious postings. Poof it. 0 -
If the church could just see it from the nun's point of view, I'm sure they'd see it was no big thing... 0 -
Isn't this a 1st Amendment issue? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by lpaalp
Isn't this a 1st Amendment issue?
Not really. It's not an issue of any kind because nobody's rights have been violated or questioned. The magazine printed something the Catholics didn't like and the Catholics said they didn't like it. Both are legal and Constitutional.0
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