Some of my other favorites are Steve-O’s series. He’s butt-naked – literally – but it’s really fun and silly, and plays to his personality. I’d love if more of the ads involving women were like that, but the women tend to be depicted in typical porn positions – on all fours, backs arched, looking all passive and submissive. You rarely see women running around, being goofy and stuff.

I was surfing around on Flickr last night, and found a set of vegan t-shirt photos that really illustrate this difference: www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/sets/72157606990641119/

Notice how some of the women models are positioned like they’re in a Maxim photoshoot, while none of the guys are. In fact, dare I say that the dudes would look ridiculous posed like this?: www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/3114345654/in/set-72157606990641119/

I mean, like many AR advocates, I have my issues with PETA. But some of the ads you have shown here are tasteful and are not chauvinistic. I also have no problem with nudity. I grew up an artist drawing nudes as a young teenager so I understand the difference between a naked bidy and pornographic exploitation of someone.

I like this one: static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens1930873module8982080photo_franka-ink-not-mink.jpg1207324117 Partially because “Run Lola Run”‘s Franka Potente is in it and the nudity is tasteful.

Ink not Mink also has a lot of nudity (of people of different genders and colors) without it being sleezy and a lot of it is with men (some are still on the nasty side but most tend to pass). images.google.com/images?q=ink%20not%20mink&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi It has a way of being radical and even a bit rude- giving the finger to the fur industry- (which I always like) without being gross about it.

I do think sometimes the PETA people have good intentions with the ads, but they often end up showing that they are one of the groups that doesn’t understand all of the human issues involved in the animal rights movement- dividing the movement and as a result, weakening the larger movement at hand.