Flop of the week: Stop AIDS campaign criticized

The Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) has been involved in the fight against Aids for years. The campaigns are usually very direct and repeatedly meet with criticism. This is also the case with the latest poster series, which shows couples having sex in unusual situations and in unfamiliar surroundings. The "Love Live Stop Aids" campaign has led to several complaints to the Fairness Commission. The FOPH is accused of using offensive subjects that degrade the most intimate relationship between people and reduce it to a mechanical activity. Others were outraged and consider the scenes to be hostile to children and families. Still others saw it as an appeal for public sexual intercourse, which is against morality and custom. However, the Fairness Commission did not take up the complaint because, according to its rules of procedure, it only has the task of checking commercial communication for fairness. Too bad for the moralizers.