12 December, 2005

ginseng porn on the bund

Not since Jenna Jameson’s late 2003 Times Square billboard has there been such a blatant display of flesh in a major urban business and tourism center. Via the Shanghaiist.

Shanghai Ginseng

This, friends, is a distinctly R-rated piece of perennial herbaceous herb. At first we thought we were the only ones to notice something a bit … revealing … about the ginseng in this advertisement. But a little judicious Googling reveals that the offending root has caught the eye of several commentators: for instance, here and here (blocked in China).

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