A judge has temporarily barred bare buttocks billboards that a bidet company had planned to put up in Broadway’s theater district.
The state supreme court decision was at the request of the Reverend Neil Rhodes, pastor of the interdenominational Times Square Church, which is housed in a building where one of the billboards was supposed to go up.
The billboard ads, featuring naked buttocks with smiley faces, were to promote the Washlet, a bidet-toilet seat that uses warm water and air.
The judge ordered Rhodes and the church to post a 90-thousand dollar bond pending a decision on the issues discussed at a conference between the parties.
She said the bond would go to the defendants for damages and costs — including lost revenues — if the court determines the church was not entitled to an injunction.
Representatives for the billboard ad company and for the church could not immediately be reached for comment.
[via WCBS TV]
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