The controversial Sunset Strip billboard advertising PornHub raises interesting issues related to property rights
For two weeks, a bilboard by Carney’s restaurant in West Hollywood for the porn website Pornhub grabbed a lot of attention from motorists and restaurant patrons. It has since been painted over. (Jenna Schoenefeld)
The racy new billboard on the Sunset Strip raised both eyebrows and questions that restaurant owner John Wolfe wasn’t comfortable answering.
For two weeks, a sign promoting the adult website Pornhub towered over Carneys, a popular hot dog and hamburger restaurant in a bright yellow rail car. Families walking into the restaurant faced the suggestive billboard.
One young customer eating with his father asked Wolfe, “What the heck are they thinking putting that thing up there?”
You walk up my ramp, and the billboard stares straight at you,” Wolfe explained. “If you’re going to do something like that, put it in a strip club…. Kids were asking their parents about it.”
The billboard showed up one morning last month in West Hollywood, several days after the pornography website’s billboard with the same message was taken down in New York City’s Times Square.
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