Examples
Examples include the use of blood and gore, diseased organs and human body parts, and the like. Thus, it can expose any taboo, but typically has an unnecessarily sexually suggestive image. Benetton Group has had several shocking ads of a priest and a nun kissing, a black woman breast-feeding a white baby, and death row inmates' thoughts. Legal advertising that employs shockvertising would depict or re-enact a car accident, which is now illegal in New York.
This practice has been compared to extreme sports and lewd behavior, and to the Jerry Springer show.
Shockvertising is recognized around the world as a term of art, in Polish, in German, and Dutch.
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