This is sad. I think they look great in the store.
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Abercrombie & Fitch ad poster not obscene |
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BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Abercrombie & Fitch Co. said Monday that Virginia Beach authorities overreacted when they confiscated two display photos of scantily clad men and a woman from a clothing store and cited the manager on a misdemeanor obscenity charge.
"The marketing images in question show less skin than you see any summer day at the beach. And certainly less than the plumber working on your kitchen sink," the company, based in New Albany, Ohio, said in a statement.
One photograph showed three young men without shirts, with one man's upper buttocks showing. The other image was of a woman whose breast was mostly exposed, authorities said.
Deputy City Attorney Mark Stiles said the charge would be dropped even though the photos might technically meet the nudity portion of city code that makes it a crime to display "obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles."
But he said it would be difficult to meet the other standards of the law: that the display had to appeal to prurient interests, lack redeeming artistic merit and be offensive to prevailing community standards.
"You might see that typical vision walking down a street," Stiles said of the photo with the men.
Virginia Beach police issued the summons Saturday after Abercrombie management did not heed warnings to remove the images from the Lynnhaven Mall store after some customers complained, police spokesman Adam Bernstein said.
Bernstein said police had charged the manager because there is no legal way to issue a summons to a corporate entity in such circumstances. If convicted, the manager faces a fine up to 2,000 U.S. dollars and as much as a year in jail.
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