Tattoo Asylum ad banned by watchdog for ‘unacceptable attitudes towards all women’

The ad watchdog has banned a poster ad for Tattoo Asylum which features a caricature of a woman in a straitjacket with no pants on, saying the poster could be interpreted as “a depiction of unacceptable attitudes towards all women”.

A complaint said the ad was “degrading to women, pornographic, sadistic” and visible to children who pass the ad in the car.

One of Tattoo Asylum’s poster ads

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