Swedish 'have an affair' ad sets complaint record
Published: 18 Mar 11 14:31 CET | Print version
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An ad campaign by a Swedish dating site urging people to cheat on their spouses has shattered the record for consumer complaints, the country's advertising watchdog said Friday.
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"Are you married? Liven up your life - have an affair", the ad suggests.
While complaints began coming into the Swedish Advertising Ombudsman (Reklamombudsmannen - RO) last weekend, but Friday the agency reported that it had received dozens complaints about the campaign from Norwegian firm Victoria Milan.
"Yesterday we got ten in two hours. Now we're up to more than 90 of them, which is a new record for the number of complaints," she told the TT news agency.
The previous record –37 complaints – was held by Comviq, but Victoria Milan's "have an affair" challenge, which includes ads on bus shelters and the Stockholm metro, as well as television commercials, has shattered all previous figures.
According to Victoria Milan, however, it's not only complaints which have skyrockets since the launch of the ad campaign.
"So far our membership numbers and revenues have beat expectations. That shows that the concent works and that there is a large market for this," the company's founder and CEO, Sigurd Vedal, told the Dagens Industri newspaper.
For a monthly few of a few hundred kronor, married men or women can create an account on the site and find a temporary partner.
In one corner of the page is a "panic button" which allows users to quickly leave the site in favour of a less controversial website.
"I understand that people have a reaction. But we're launching a service for a behaviour that already exists. Our service is an alternative to divorce," said Vedal.
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Yeah right?
#1. Sex does NOT equal love.
#2. Marriage does not equal love.
#3. Love means caring enough to speak the truth.
#4. Most people are afraid to speak truth because they would lose what little alleged love they have at the time they speak.
#5. We need to teach people to speak the truth about their needs and wants and desires without being mean to each other.
The fact is this ---> It wasn't the disease itself that was the real killer. The REAL killer was promiscuous sex! One infected monogamous person spreads the disease to exactly one other person (their mate) and there the disease dies. It was the bath-houses in San Francisco that really let this disease get a foothold. Encouraging multiple sex with random partners is not only foolish and dangerous but it's also Stupid!
genius reklam though all the same but yeah it's sad!
If the divorce would be inevitable, then logically so would the affair, and in that case there wouldn't be a need to encourage it.