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An ad for Playboy lingerie from Australian retailer Bras N Things has been deemed by the country's ad watchdog to be too risqué to be shown on digital billboards. But the model in the spot has some choice words for critics who called the ad "vulgar" and likened it to "amateur porn."
The model, Simone Holtznagel, a former Australia's Next Top Model contestant, was furious about many of the complaints cited by the Australian Advertising Standards Bureau in banning the ad.
One complaint read: "They were not merely modeling the underwear, they were moving suggestively, gyrating and looking lasciviously at the camera—like a very amateur porn movie.
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