Teazers in a tight spot
2005-03-31 09:34
Annamarie van Wyk
Johannesburg - "If I use the word 'Teazers' in an advertisement, there are a bunch of old women who start yelling.
"People will always complain about Teazers," Lolly Jackson, owner of the Teazers adult entertainment clubs, said after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) introduced sanctions against the club.
This means that ASA members are not allowed to accept Teazers ads until such time as the club has paid for a series of offences.
"We have no choice but to pay up," Jackson said, "but this is not the last the public will hear about Teazers."
The sanctions came after an ASA ruling in 2001 that the club withdraw its ad entitled "Cat" and that the "Brandy" ad be broadcast only outside family hours. Teazers ignored these rulings.
ASA then ordered Teazers "to publish a summary of the ruling in all or some of the media in which the advertisements were published" and carry the cost of this exercise. Teazers ignored this order as well.
"One ad came second in an international competition, but here in South Africa I have to pay a fine for it. It is not fair," Jackson complained.
One of the banned advertisements claimed that men who slip away in secret for a lap dance or two make better lovers when they return home.
- Beeld