Too Hot for Australian Television, Apparently

Australian broadcasters managed to deem a condom advertisement too explicit for national television, which raises more questions than it answers. The ad, made for Four Seasons Condoms, featured the kind of tanned surfer couple that looks assembled from a mood board labeled "Australia"—and whatever they were demonstrating with those colorful rubbers was evidently enough to get the clip pulled before it could reach a prime-time audience.

The logic of this escapes me. A condom ad—an ad specifically designed to make safe sex look worth having—banned because it looked too appealing. The couple in question presumably retreats to their beach and their unfilmed activities while the rest of the country sources contraception from chemist shelves without the benefit of aspirational bronzed guidance. Broadcasting standards: protecting no one from nothing, as usual. Come again.