TheSpunker - by Ben Popken. Published by Gattaca, Inc.

Let the Beast Go

Oh dear. Humo magazine will give away free Durex condoms in its next issue and has decided to go buck wild about it. The following print ads appeared and this commercial was created, all by Mortier Brigade, a company whose motto is "confuse and conquer."  Does "Extra Tintelend" mean extra tingly? Call me a prude but none of these are sexy. Is that a beaver on that girl's bum? Maybe they just have sex differently in Brussels. Like inside piles of sticks. Via Adhunt.

Lay the Slap Down

With enough minutes for your mobile, feel free to "say whatever comes to mind" - even if, or rather, especially if it gets your face slapped by one hot Portuguese chick after another, as in this new promo by TBWA\LISBOA for TMN. Machismo cultures are so irascible.

Sin City Bar

There's a little bar off the main drag, where a wanton innocent gyrates, waiting for her childhood hero to rescue her once again. Visit her at "Frank Miller's Sin City Bar" as envisioned by the Japanese. The hotspot features filet mignon, pasta creations, and some light bondage/cabaret action. Who watches the Watchwomen? via apt.

Timmy Tofu

Thought: The sexiest ads contain no sex.

Coy $ Ad Yanked

"More than 100 billboards with Finance weekly ads were placed in Moscow on the 1st of September 2003. Three weeks later all of them were dismantled when the ad was banned by city authorities as immoral and offensive. The text on the poster goes, “A magazine about making money”. What are a dollar and a euro doing?...Me and most of my friends at the first glance thought they were dancing. But then we looked closer and realized they are doing something else. They are making money." You might also say they're doing their finances. Via Russian Marketing Blog.

What's Wrong with HIV?

Let's play a game. How many things are wrong with this poster? Here's my guesses: 1) What's with the amalgam of styles - preppy/hiphop and they don't know how to wear either... pink shirt looks like he just got off work at Applebee's and is trying on a doo-rag for his Halloween costume... 2) They’re at a go-kart-track, I can just see that bright idea coming up in a focus group conversation. Unfortunately, there's no go-karts around Nevins street (except maybe some that "fell off the back of the truck" and are sitting in a garage...) 3) Something very wrong about the 3 guys and the 1 girl... The story I envision is they’re joking about they used to all ride her bareback back in the day, oldschool style, but it's all chill now cause they got Reyataz. 4) Apparently, HIV makes you fat. 5) This ad wears its demographic intentions on its sleeve 6) This is a bad ad.

SuicideGirls V-Cast

Once again, porn paves the way for technological innovation. SuicideGirls.com, purveryors of nekkid gothy chicks, have launched a video podcast. Now you can take Dark Raven Heathen of the Night to any bathroom, anywhere! Onwards and upwards, lassies. Spotted at Agenda, Inc.

Homophobia Sells Virgin Airlines Seats

This humorous ad plays off homophobia while showcasing Virgin Atlantic's upper-class suite seating where you get your own little bed and one of those bathroom barriers so you don't have to touch that miserable stranger you've been randomly assigned to be locked in with for the next few hours. For a few pence more, they should make it so you get a convertible top. Note how one guy looks like a satyr and the other, your lacrosse buddy from sales.  Spotted at Reklamfeber.

AIDS is Present

.start for Muenchener AIDS-Hilfe (Germany). Copy reads: And you, what do you bring to your partner? Besides being sobering, it's an effective instance of good partnering between headline and image, each needing each other. More here and here. Spotted at Adverblog.

Neo-Fascist Chique on Holiday

Style.com has a fabulous photo spread advertising fashion designer Tom Ford's wares. "This...depicts his view of a society dehumanized by the quest for physical perfection, for which the beauty world bears considerable responsibility," reports Style. Although there is an inexplicable babushka, it seems an awful lot of effort for just a bunch of black briefs, white briefs, and a mélange of standard Lauren and Armani vestments.  Maybe because it's not called Substance.com. More.