The MTA said Thursday that it would allow ads for a sex toy company to appear in the subway one day after the images were deemed too racy for city straphangers. The reversal came after accusations of ...

But the issue of provocative ads is not limited to sexuality: After the MTA rejected inflammatory ads that denigrated Islam by a group called the American Freedom Law Center, the organization sued the ...

A few years ago, we could have commuted alongside (and blithely ignored) a series of subway ads that set pastel-colored sex toys on beige backdrops with the accompanying slogans, “Toys, for sex” and ...

A study from Queen Mary University of London reveals that the music and soundscapes used in toy commercials are reinforcing ...

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When you walk down the aisles of children’s toys in big box retail stores, it’s immediately apparent that we expect boys and girls to want to play with drastically different things. The boys’ aisles ...

In the 80s and 90s, ads showing boys with toy trucks and girls playing with dolls were a fixture on TV. Sociologist Elizabeth Sweet says the concept of boy vs. girl toys has ebbed and flowed ...

Ads for Aqua Dots, a dangerous toy that was recalled weeks ago, were found in Sunday morning papers. Aqua Dots was recalled because the colorful beads it is comprised of are coated with a chemical ...

If a toy is moving in an ad, it better move once a child gets a hold of it. That’s the latest word from the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc., which ...