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Phone Box Advertising Norms

The visual richness of escort service advertising in this London Mayfair phone booth above, and the more text based equivilent in Sao Paolo below. And the complete absence of escort ads in Bangkok - bottom photo.

Why interesting? The richness and cost to produce the advertising; the degree to which it can be (re)moved by potential customers and/or cleaners; the position of the advertising within the phone booth itself; the social acceptability (or otherwise) of using soft-core pornography in a public space; the legal status of prostitution in the society and the fact that illicit advertising is deemed necessary in the first place.

The keen eyed amongst you will no-doubt be chuckling to the appropriate nature of text in the Mastercard advertising in the top photo. Click to, enlarge.

Writing from Mayfair | March 28, 2007 | Permalink