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Here's world's raciest ads. Ads that used sex to seduce and sell. Great? Advertising Standard's authority didn't think so.

Our own British Advertising Standards Authority banned this bathroom-friendly ad for being offensive. Designer Tanner Krolle claimed the couple couldn't be having sex because the man's trousers were still on. (That would be news to anyone who lost their virginity at the school disco.)

Skechers pulled this ad after a nurses's group complained it advanced a negative stereotype of their profession. Yet similar ads with Christina Aguilera appearing as teacher and student and cop and criminal continued to run. (Why Skechers overlooked the titillating Hot Lunch Lady we'll never know.)

By digitally modifying a model for the purpose of exploiting her sexuality, this Bacardi ad violated the Canadian Code of Advertising. (Maybe the Canucks were really offended because the ad implied there's something better than beer.)

This cheeky ad campaign for the Washlet, a heated toilet seat, ran in various magazines but was banned from New York City's Times Square when a judge agreed the advertisement interfered with the religious mission of the Times Square Church below.

Once New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority realised "get brain" was slang for oral sex, this poster was banned from all city vehicles. (We can relate to the confusion. The model appears to be offering up something entirely different.)

McDonalds publicly apologised for this ad, claiming it had not been aware that the phrase "I'd hit it" is often used to express sexual interest. (We're going to give the fast food chain the benefit of the doubt here, since the "it" in question is a double cheeseburger. Now if it had been their baked apple pie ...)

Auckland International Airport officials nixed this ad depicting former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins getting "horny" with a stuffed rhino. Debunking the old sheepherder stereotype that New Zealanders are into inter-species shenanigans.

This poster for the movie "Rules of Attraction" was banned in America for using stuffed animals to, well, turn on a nation of plushie fetishists.

Concerns as to just where the model's thumb was headed resulted in this print ad getting the thumbs down from our British censors. (And the thumbs up from 13-year-olds boys everywhere.)

Mattel demanded The Body Shop remove this self-esteem poster featuring a rubenesque anti-Barbie, because it was insulting to the real Barbie. The ad was actually pulled from some stores in the United States after some people found this doll offensive for different reasons.

Calvin Klein has been playing with teenage sexuality ever since a 15-year old Brooke Shields declared there was nothing between herself and her Calvins. But this mid-90's campaign for CK hit too close to home and was pulled.

We see it as a frozen-in-carbonite homage to "The Empire Strikes Back," but the Motion Picture Association of America saw it as graphic torture and threatened to withhold the film's rating unless the producers did away with this and other similarly themed promotional material.