Louisville: Too sexy for its politicians
Posted By jss on October 12, 2009
An ad campaign that depicts Louisville, Kentucky as a place where one *might* find a single woman with a tattoo on her derriere, or where someone might possibly have fun for longer than a dose of Viagra lasts — in other words, an ad campaign that appeals to single, educated people — is under fire by politicians. (Of course.)
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Louisville ads take racy turn some question
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Those ads and others have received “an incredibly positive response,” said Pip Pullen, an accounts director for Louisville-based marketing and advertising firm Red7e who worked on the Possibility City campaign.“Except,” he said, “some members of the Metro Council took umbrage.”
The Courier-Journal covers the story with a commendable lack of bias, though I’m half expecting an editorial page salvo. It is the Metro Council that amuses me, though. Because eventually, politicians who count votes, even in Kentucky, are going to find that having moral values that are far more conservative than those of voters is not the way to get re-elected.
The story is spreading around the web. Funny, though, I’m not seeing other news sources linking to the actual ads. Here’s the “Louisville: Where Happiness Lasting More Than Four Hours is Perfectly Normal” ad.
Over the line? Give me a break.
"Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2011, of a book by the same name.
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