Anti Porn Group Upset With Home Depot - Playboy's 'Women Of Home Depot'

[matcom]

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Outraged by a recent Playboy.com nude pictorial featuring "The Women of Home Depot," a group of about 20 local anti-pornography activists, clergy, conservatives and citizens gathered in the parking lot of the Farmingdale Home Depot yesterday morning to condemn what they called an endorsement of pornography on the part of the home improvement superstore chain.

"We are asking Home Depot to get out of the porn business," said Robert Lloyd, executive director of Long Island Citizens for Community Values, a decade-old Huntington nonprofit whose slogan is: "Working to reduce the harmful effects of pornography."

Invoking family values and quoting statistics on the role pornography plays in sex crimes, Lloyd and others called on Home Depot to restore its image by disavowing the Playboy.com pictorial. They threatened to boycott the Atlanta-based company, which has 20 stores in Nassau and Suffolk, unless it issued an apology and instituted changes to its employee policy to ensure it would not happen again.

Representatives from Home Depot and Playboy.com said Home Depot had nothing to do with the pictorial, a Web-only feature posted in July on Playboy.com's pay section, which costs members $19.95 a month.

"We didn't participate in this, we didn't endorse it, we didn't have anything to do with Playboy's decision to do this," Home Depot spokesman Don Harrison said, adding that this was the third time the company issued similar statements this year. "We couldn't stop it. ... Obviously they didn't do it on store time."

Shoppers at the Farmingdale store seemed oblivious to the protest. "I think it's fine," said Lori Dolencie, 42, of Levittown, when asked about the nude photos. "More power to them."

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liplay053918103aug05,0,6990576.story?coll=ny-topstories-headlines

[RobertSeattle]

1. Good Gawd - yet another "Nontroversy"

But I might have to research this a little more by purchasing a copy...

[JohnKleeb]

2. the women of home depot?

I guess theres a speciality porn for everyone.

[edbermac]

6. Hell yes John...

I've always wanted to see a naked woman holding a chainsaw...

:silly:

[WilliamPitt]

3. You're on a roll today

[matcom]

4. MatcomNews

ALWAYS breaking the 'hard stories' :D

[NewJeffCT]

7. First the chainsawed girlfriend and now this

I think you have a tool obsession...

[GOPisEvil]

5. What exactly is Home Depot supposed to do?

They want Home Depot to issue edicts that control what their employees do when they're not at work? How '1984'.

If I were Home Depot, I'd tell this group to shove it.

[jmowreader]

8. We are NOT in the porn business!

We don't have a porn department.

We don't have any porn SKUs.

For God's sake, people, think! It's hard enough to find the lot associates as it is. If we put PORN in the stores, we'd never get them out of the men's room and we'd be hearing the debate: which is a better wanking lube, WD-40 or silicone spray?

Besides, Home Depot porn would be a calendar with 12 different high-end table saws or something like that.

[Syncronaut Seven]

9. hot damn!!!

Home Depot girls are HOT!!! I'm gonna do all my shopping there!

[BringEmOn]

10. Women of Home Depot Get Nailed.

Wanna screw?