Is Bud Light's porn ad really that shocking?

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Time.com today weighs in on this Web ad for Bud Light, in which a guy tries to buy a porn magazine with his six-pack of beer, only to see events comically unfold in the most outlandish and shameful way imaginable. The writer wonders if the ad, coming from such a huge brand, "seems to mark some kind of cultural tipping point, where pornography has soaked so far into the fabric of mainstream culture that it's no longer seen as a stain."

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