Bras’n’Things is promoting Playboy in their current explicit front window advertising in shopping centres all around Australia with a competition where the winner gets to have lunch with playboy bunnies in the playboy mansion. This porn brand should not be promoted to children and young people in shopping centres by responsible retailer.

Playboy promotes the idea of women as subservient to the sexual fantasies of men. Playboy’s vision for young women is harmful and should not be promoted to children and young people in shopping centres by responsible retailers. Playboy women are referred to as ‘bitches’ ‘sluts’ and ‘whores’ on Playboy’s TV channels and DVDs. The Playboy brand and fortune is built on the sexual degradation of women.

We must evaluate who benefits from Bras n Things' marketing of the Playboy brand. Playboy is a thriving porn brand which has infiltrated mainstream culture with a selection of pink, sparkly merchandise and ‘retro’ fashions. Rather than perpetuate Playboy’s lies about women and their purpose in life, Bras and Things have a corporate responsibility to promote the truth that women and girls have the right to be treated with respect and dignity, and live free from discrimination. What Playboy offers women and girls are damaging, stereotyped sex roles that promote women’s inequality.