Teazers rebuked for boobs billboard

30 August 2016 - 17:04
By Deneesha Pillay

Teazers has been ordered to immediately remove a giant billboard in Johannesburg featuring the torso of a woman wearing a blue bra with thumbs-up "like” emoticons on each breast. The Advertising Standards Authority found that the billboard reinforced a “negative stereotype that entrenches the role of women as mere objects of lust‚ with nothing more to offer”.

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