Safe Sex too Sexy for Australia?

An HIV-prevention ad featuring a fully-clothed gay couple embracing with a condom has been removed from bus shelters in Australia following complaints from the Australian Christian Lobby that it went “against prevailing community standards” & introduced “sexuality to young children through forced exposure in public.” The Central Telegraph reports:

ACL’s State Director for Queensland is calling their campaign to have the ad removed “A massive groundswell of people power" despite only 47 complaints being made. The advert has been released by the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities as part of their Government funded HIV prevention and sexual health promotion work with gay men.

“We are deeply disappointed by the behaviour of Adshel in removing the ads, without even notifying us and without proper reason” said Paul Martin, Executive Director of Healthy Communities. [via Towelroad]

Update: The billboards are back after it became clear that the complaints were made up by the ACL.