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Playboy magazine is to pull the plug on its Portuguese edition after it ran a photo shoot featuring Jesus Christ among topless models.

The spread was ostensibly a tribute to Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago’s The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, but Hugh Hefner’s headquarters have reacted with outrage.

Theresa Hennessy, Playboy Enterprises vice president of public relations told the Mail Online: ‘We did not see or approve the cover and pictorial in the July issue of Playboy Portugal. It is a shocking breach of our standards and we would have not allowed it to be published if we had seen it in advance. We are in the process of terminating our agreement with the Portuguese publisher.'

Saramago’s novel is a fictional re-telling of Christ’s life, depicting him as a flawed, human character. It generated controversy among the Roman Catholic Church, who accused Saramago of depicting a ‘substantially anti-religious vision.’

However, other critics have praised it as a ‘deeply philosophical, provocative and compelling work.’

UK sexual health charity Marie Stopes will tonight launch the first TV commercial in the country to offer advice on abortion services. Watch the video.

The TV ad shown on Channel 4 at 10.10pm tonight, features a number of women from different walks of life who are "late". A voiceover says that being late for a period could mean pregnancy.

The controversial campaign, which anti-abortion campaign group Life has said is "grotesque", will not be aired by Channel 4 in Northern Ireland because abortion is still illegal in the province.

Marie Stopes said that the ad, which has been made by ad agency icreate4, will "empower women to reach confident, informed decisions about their sexual health".

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For years, advertising for tampons and "sanitary products" have been shrouded in nebulous euphemism. So what happens when a US tampon-maker drops the coy messaging and goes straight for the jugular (so to speak)? Its ad gets banned by the major US television networks for mentioning the word vagina.

Even when the company substituted "down there" for vagina, two of the networks still wouldn't run the ad, so the company was forced to drop the idea altogether.

An executive for Kimberly-Clark, the owner of Kotex, notes that US TV networks have no such compunction about references to "erectile dysfunction" in prime-time ads for Viagra and Ciallis.

The amended ad shown above, "How do I feel about my period?", has a series of images parodying the stock images used in sanitary product advertising, and concludes: "The ads on TV are really helpful because they use that blue liquid, and I'm like, oh, that's what's supposed to happen." The ad debuted on US television this week.

Things are different in anything-goes Britain, where the makers of the Mooncup product have a website entitled loveyourvagina.com.

A controversy has erupted in France over a campaign to discourage young people from smoking. The images show teenagers kneeling in front of a man, as if being forced to have oral sex. The caption reads: "Smoking is to be a slave to tobacco."

The campaign, which was devised for a pressure group supporting the rights of non-smokers, has been attacked as "scandalous" and "potentially counter-productive" by feminist and pro-family campaigners.

The non-smokers' rights group says it does not care if adults are shocked by its posters. Gérard Audureau, the president of Les Droits des Non-fumeurs (The Rights of Non-smokers), the pressure group which commissioned the ads, said: "Very few anti-smoking campaigns catch the attention of the young. You have to use extreme images to make them take notice."

To celebrate the launch of their new website, underwear label Aubade spent ten days cheering up passersby with live strippers in rue Montorgueil, Paris. Not in your face, hard core, stiptease, it was more of a 'girl next door' approach.