Taser International Uses Playboy Bunnies To Sell Its Products

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http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/05/16/taser-international-uses-playboy-bunnies-to-sell-its-products/


And who says there isn’t an intimate connection between sex and violence…


“Vancouver businessman Randy Puder was drawn to the booth operated by Taser International at the Consumer Trade Show in Las Vegas last January.

Playboy bunnies were signing photographs while salesmen pitched a new personal Taser that’s small enough to fit into a woman’s purse, he recalled.

“It was excellent marketing,” Puder told a public inquiry Thursday probing the use of Tasers in B.C.

He got a signed photo from a Playboy bunny, which he showed to The Vancouver Sun. It has the Taser company logo on it. He was asked who he wanted it signed to and he said, half-joking, “The Vancouver police board.””
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when tasers first went on the open market I said they would be used on women and children

and here we are

(yes, I know, they were selling purse sized tasers - they are also pants pocket sized.)