Boston, Mass., Feb 1, 2008 / 01:28 am
A Boston-area fitness club’s advertisement depicting nuns and a naked man has attracted harsh criticism, CBS News reports.
The advertisement for the Equinox fitness clubs, developed by the Fallon Worldwide ad agency, is being displayed in gyms and publications like Boston Magazine. One ad features attractive young women dressed as nuns in habit who sketch a naked man while staring at his crotch.
C. J. Doyle of the Catholic Action league called the advertisement “unfair and depraved.”
"It's also an example of this perverse obsession that the advertising industry has with exploiting and sexualizing Catholic religious imagery," Doyle said to CBS.