lastminute.com release subliminally sexual ad (also, feat. the mystery of the giant hill penis!)
By Rich Leigh on Tuesday, February 10, 2015
In a not-so-subtle Valentine’s Day-related ad, travel website lastminute.com has essentially highlighted pre-penetration coitus.
Lovely, innit?
To accompany the ad – which the brand told me in a tweet was ‘a perfectly innocent look at Europe’s delights’ – the following promo video has been put together:
Also – though potentially unrelated and even less subtle if it was in fact them – a giant penis has recently… POPPED UP (snigger) on the side of Clwydian Hills, around 12 miles from Wrexham, as reported in the Mirror:
#News Shape of giant PENIS appears on hill in middle of countryside…but nobody knows why? http://t.co/3twhDRIIn3 pic.twitter.com/8waUN6oo9L
— Henna Joselevitch (@HennaJosele) February 8, 2015
Come on then PRs, fess up. It HAS to be one of you.
I called Andrew Price, the photographer named in the Mirror’s snaps (after finding him on the NUJ freelance directory listed as a PR photographer here) and he was adamant he didn’t know who it was, but if this isn’t a Valentine’s Day stunt I’d be very surprised.