Residents of Cape Town are furious over the Sex Expo’s return since some of the exhibition’s advertisements are prohibited by the City of Cape Town because they are considered to be too “risqué.”
Two of the campaign’s “eye-popping” street posters had to be abandoned, and the organizers were forced to cancel their mobile advertising trailer after an angry neighbor complained that it had parked in Tygervalley Road next to a school.
Heinz Winckler, a previous Idols SA winner and the founder and main pastor of LoveKey Church, expressed his displeasure with the event’s public advertising on Facebook last year, demonstrating that the sex health, wellness, and education display is not new to controversy and public criticism.
The event’s “minor hiccup” this weekend hasn’t stopped the organizers, according to a statement they released, and they’re still going strong. As a result, it was decided that just three of the five posters would be shown on street poles in Cape Town. The posters that were approved featured a male model holding an ice cream cone, two bikini-clad women, and a topless female model holding two pineapples in front of her breasts.
Eddie Andrews, Deputy Mayor and Member of the Mayoral Committee for Spatial Planning and Environment, reported that the mobile advertising trailer was the subject of a complaint that the City received.
