Sign the A&F boycott petition and circulate

By: American Decency Staff

Sign the petition and circulate: https://secure4.afo.net/ada/petition.php A&F’s return to publishing their pornographic Quarterly is also a return to an arrogant, intentional push to promote and encourage a lifestyle of sexual promiscuity, destruction, and deviance with no regard for the thousands of expressions of outrage and concern they’ve received over the years and no regard for the damage done to the young people from whom they profit.Not only is A&F back to their old ways, they have “upped the anteâ€Â – with images that are even more graphic and explicit, more pornographic than in any of their previous editions. This is how we described the 2003 A&F Summer Quarterly:  “As has become common for A&F, the quarterly features dozens of nude photos of college-age youth – assaulting the senses with full nudity, partial nudity, frontal nudity, rear nudity. The “catalogâ€Â contains over 30 images of complete nudity – both female and male – often in sexually explicit poses, in pairs and as well as group settings.â€Â Now seven years later this new Quarterly has gotten away from the pretext that this has anything about clothing – the publication is nothing but pornographic pictures from the beginning to end.  There are over 60 images of full nudity – both male and female.  Interestingly, two-thirds are pictures of male nudity, presumably targeting the market of homosexual men. The Quarterly also features many homoerotic photos of young men in sexualized poses with other men.  It also includes girls with girls – embracing and kissing. Another very disturbing theme of the Quarterly is of the dozen images that not only just suggest or imply group sex, but overtly promote such perversity.  Numbers of images of one male and multiple females posed erotically together. Then there are the photos of a topless female engaged with a police officer in a squad car, a male with a video camera pointed up the skirt of a female, and a girl in a demeaning sexual position. And while each photo is singularly offensive and damaging, the messages sent by the Quarterly as a whole is what is even more troubling. Our youth are being targeted. Parents are being undermined. A&F knows that many adults are not in favor of Abercrombie & Fitch and avoid it. A&F also knows that kids don't avoid it. Do you want your young person to frequent stores that deal in pornography? I know you don't nor do I! What you can do – 1. Do not shop at Abercrombie and Fitch, or its subsidiary stores, "abercrombie kids" and "Hollister." 2. Return any merchandise you have purchased from them. 3. Let the mall where you shop know that you are disappointed in their tolerance of such immorality in a family marketplace. Consider shopping elsewhere. 4.Tell others about the immoral practices of A&F and encourage them to avoid supporting this evil corporation. 5. Ask your church or school to take a public stance against Abercrombie. Sign the boycott petition and circulate: https://secure4.afo.net/ada/petition.php Thanks for standing with us: Donate online: https://secure4.afo.net/ada/donate.php American Decency Association P.O. Box 202 Fremont MI 49412 American Decency Association is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. ———————— American Decency Association Bill Johnson, President P.O. Box 202 Fremont, MI 49412 ph: 231-924-4050 https://americandecency.org/ http://www.twitter.com/billwjohnson

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