Bizarre adverts causing ructions in catholic circles from The Telegraph :

The Catholic Church has criticised an Italian television advert in which a half-naked man resembling Christ tries to ward off the advances of an overweight dominatrix dressed in suspenders and stockings.

The advertisement, for a type of mobile phone earpiece, shows the man tied to a bed in a pose that evokes Jesus on the cross.

Sweating and looking anxious, he winces when a woman in tights and high heels enters the room, thwacks whip on the bed and starts to straddle him.

“Hey Dad, can you help me?” the male actor says in English, looking upwards as if to God.

The bizarre ad, for a company called Nodis, has been aired on a national television channel, Italia 1, which is owned by Mediaset, a company belonging to Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister.

“It’s a sordid concept and incredibly insulting to those who believe in Jesus Christ,” said an editorial in Avvenire, a daily newspaper owned by the Catholic Bishops Conference.

As with all these things, the first reaction of a non-shroud waving type is to go and find the offending advert – will they ever learn?

A few clicks later and we have the following damned amusing advert :
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And, good lord, looking at the size of that he needs half a dozen prop forwards coming to his aid instead of his dad.

As a friend of mine would say – I bet she does a mans portion!