For a network known for teen-centric shows, the CW raises more than a few eyebrows with its decidedly adult ads. Last year, it was the OMFG Gossip Girl ads, and now there's hubbub over its campaign for The Vampire Diaries, a teen vampire drama that debuts Sept. 10.

Specifically, the above ad — with the strategically placed boys (let me guess, one's a vampire, the other's not?!) — suggests a ménage à trois. Love does suck! Has the CW gone too far, or is this just the blood a new show needs?









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i see nothing wrong with it. when i first saw it i thought "geez more vampires"
1I don't see how having a girl and two guys in the same picture equalling some three-way action. If they were on each other maybe, but like this? It just strikes me as girl stuck between two guys (probably the whole "who do I choose?" angle).
2and I'm with snookyx on this one. My first thought was "oh crap, more vampire nonsense"
not even close to the gossip girl ads from last season with serena making the o-face!
3I don't even think it's risque.
4Where's the option for : It's just an ad!
This is nothing. And what's with acting like high school kids don't have sex? I had more sex in high school than I do now, that's for sure.
5am i missing some hidden meaning here? i keep looking at it trying to make something controversial or inappropriate of it and can't.
6I'm more offended by the fact that it's another f-ing vampire (teen) drama. I think it needs more blood. And guts. I'd watch that.
7i wish i went to high school with those three
8My immediate thought was that I hoped that the bird didn't crap on the head of the guy to the right.
9when will vampires be "out" again, I'm so bored with this
10Myeah, no biggie.
11Everything is sex and/or violence now. Too bad. It makes the kids jaded.
12I haven't read the books, but from what I've garnered (working at a book store) the guys are brothers and both vampires... ones the bad boy and the other's the Edward Cullen of the two.
13I think people have way too much free time on their hands.
14Uhh... Kids don't lie in the grass anymore without it being about a threesome?
15I am so sick of vampires.
16lately theres been so much flack on suggestive ads that involve multiple guys and a girl. Media didn't care before when it was more girls and a guy.
17I think men are getting scared that women will start wanting threesomes with 2 guys with all this media making it look sexy!
Not that this ad even look suggestive to me, it doesn't.
I've always been obsessed with vampires ever since I was like four, but it is getting a bit over done. Every other thing they come out with is about vampires. I mean vampires are pretty sexual creatures to begin with so you have to expect some sexuality to be involved, but I really don't see what the big deal is in this picture. Not at all worse than any other teen movie.
18This is *almost* as scandalous as this salacious trio: http://tinyurl.com/mtv83g I mean OMG, two guys and one girl in the same picture must be sexual! Kids these days and their threesomes...jeez.
19Hmmm.. the only thing I was thinking about, gosh, another vampire show?! I'm so bored with vampires due to many vampire movies, books, etc...
20I wasn't thinking about 3some or anything like that, how is that implied with that poster?
This image implies nothing unless you have a dirty sick mind and want to go that route in every image you encounter.
21I agree with #2.
22i dont think it even risque, its just another vampire poster.
23Ugh! No more vamps already!!
24Doesn't offend me. If the poster's a true reflection of the show hopefully it will turn off audiences who aren't mature enough to watch it.
25That counts as risque these days? Dang. Then I must be some sort of lady of the nights since I frequently hang out with two guys at the same time.
Though seriously. Enough with the teenage vampires.
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