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YouTube bans porn ad aimed at disabled people

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By John Glenday, Reporter

May 9, 2013 | 1 min read

YouTube has stoked controversy amongst the disabled community after it moved to ban an advert which promoted the use of prostitutes and a new porn website.

Come4, is described as a ‘new vision for sex’, and is promoted by disability rights campaigner Asta Philpot - who claims that everyone has the right to a sex life.

The advert features Philpot recounting his own experiences with prostitutes; including some explicit footage illustrating a visit to a brothel with his father in which they take time to choose ‘the right one’.

YouTube swiftly moved to block the material for breaching its ‘terms of service’, a decision Philpot branded ‘pretty disgusting’.

Defending the film Alasdhair Macgregor Hastie, chief creative officer at Being/TBWA in France, accused YouTube of being ‘paranoid about showing anything that could possibly instigate negative press,’ adding that ‘nudity immediately sets their lawyers' teeth on edge’.

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