London’s XFM has recently reported this:

The poster ads for the 80s channelling, lycra clad, high haired Americans STEEL PANTHER’s new album, Balls Out (based on the album’s front cover) featured a skantily clad woman leaning back, showing a fair amount of skin with her hand by her crotch holding a sting of two metal balls.

A domestic abuse charity complained to the Advertising Standards Agency claiming the posters were offensive as the picture of the woman was demeaning and overtly sexual. They also questioned whether it was suitable for being displayed where children might see it.

The band’s label – Universal Island Records – countered that it was meant to be so over the top that no one would take it seriously and so it didn’t actually undermine women, adding that it was mostly put up in places like clubs and bars where adults went for nights out and they weren’t aware of them being close to any schools.

They hadn’t actually checked though and admitted more care should have been taken in choosing where to put the posters.

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