PETA Plans to Raise Awareness Through Porn Website
PETA Plans to Raise Awareness Through Porn Website
Posted 09/21/2011 at 10:59am
| by Paul Lilly
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Everyone knows that sex sells. PETA -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- seems to think the power of sex will also sell the general public on its views for animal rights and giving up meat. The organization is so convinced of its idea that it went and applied for the domain PETA.xxx.
The non-profit organization told the U.K.'s Telegraph that it's "hoping to reach a whole new audience of people, some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn't anticipate seeing when they went to the PETA triple-X site."
It's an obviously risky (and risque) move that some believe will backfire. Jennifer Pozner, executive director of Women In Media & News, says PETA has continually pushed the sexism angle, and that it "has gotten more extreme and more degrading." After this, the bar can't get any lower, she says.
PETA says its website will be enticing at first, and as visitors go deeper, "that's when they'll be confronted with images that we hope will make them stop and think and get them talking and hopefully encourage them to make a lifestyle change to a plant-based diet." The site will include pictures and videos, both of nude models and that of the mistreatment of animals.
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szore
September 22, 2011 at 6:21am
There is a Bestiality joke here somewhere...looking...looking... someone with wit help me out here...
Blaze589
September 21, 2011 at 3:30pm
PETA stands for: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; and ethics is a principal of morality; and scientifically speaking "people" are also animals; and some pornography can be regarded as the unethical treatment of women. How about PETA learn some ethics.
bloodgain
September 21, 2011 at 1:36pm
So what's their goal here? To associate sexually arousing images with mistreating animals?
Yeah, there's no way this could backfire.
al360ex
September 21, 2011 at 2:54pm
Naked girl...fap fap fap............
PICTURE OF TORTURED PUPPY POPS UP
Naked girl...fap fap fap............
That's the mental image I had when I read this article :) !
big_montana
September 21, 2011 at 11:07am
And here I always thought that PETA stood for People Eating Tasty Animals.
SirGraham
September 21, 2011 at 12:31pm
All of God's creatures have a place on the earth...right next to the mashed potatoes.
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