Dear Petition Supporters,

This is a call out to as many people as possible to make submissions to the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA), to say that Honey Birdette porn-themed ads are not your ‘community standard’.

According to Ad Standards, the attached floor-to-ceiling porn-themed Honey Birdette ads all complied with the AANA Code of Ethics. The Code is supposed to reflect ‘community standards’ and to make sure ads are ‘prepared with a sense of obligation to the consumer and society’. How do these porn-themed ads reflect a ‘sense of obligation’ to us? To our kids?

The AANA is asking whether the current Code is doing its job.There are just a few days left to tell the AANA that pornified portrayals of women in the public space is not our community standard.

Please make your submission to the AANA by addressing one or more of the questions listed at the end of the Discussion Paper.

For example, I'll be making my point about there are no penalties for non-compliance, even for repeat offenders and therefore no incentive for advertisers to change their behaviour. Even when advertisers replace offending ads with worse ones, the very act of replacement is counted as a compliance!

Send your submission,

by email: aanasubmissions@aana.com.au
by mail: AANA Code of Ethics Review Discussion Paper
Suite 301, 100 William Street, Sydney NSW 2011

Deadline is Friday, 18 October 2019.

For more information, please refer to article by our friends at Collective Shout and feel free to use some of their recommendations:  

https://www.collectiveshout.org/aana_invites_submissions_for_advertising_code_of_ethics_review

Don't let this opportunity to be heard pass by, and please continue to share this petition with friends and family. Your support and tenacity in seeing this to the end is much appreciated.

Best regards,

Kenneth Thor