this is not a good ad for teenagers if someone dosen't know the show and see this add will think that this is a cover of a porn .

No, I think they're fine, if you think about it there's alot worse happening at our schools, and some of us are younger than 17. Nonetheless, I Gossip Girl!!!!!!!!!

i wish the focused more on the fashion, then the sex...

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Woah. I know that the actors in the show aren't actually minors but this is crossing the line.

Meh, it's more about seriously bad taste!
Also they make the show look steamier than it is - for instance the second picture makes it look like they're having sex in the swimming pool, while if I remember the episode correctly they're just kissing.

I like this show very much,but I think they should have set the characters in college or just early 20's...I don't know how NYC high schoolers rock out but I never did any of that, in high school, and I lived in a big city...

I actually think the show isn't that scandalous/raunchy...the ads portray it to be more like that than it is! The books had more scandalous stuff in them than the show. But I think the ads are hot.

If I saw these ads I would NEVER let my 15 year old watch this show. What happened to innocence?

Agree Karma1582. How many teenagers actually have that cool and exciting a life? It's mostly just unrealistic than anything.

Sad thing is that this show is pretty great and, unfortunately, a fairly accurate portrayal of being part of Manhatten's upper echelon - but it really isn't for teens. It's for adults. Not trying to say a teen can't enjoy it, but it couldn't possibly be healthy for them to idealize it. These ads really are going too far though, and they're just unnecessary. Like RustyAngel said, it's really not that raunchy of a show. I'd feel a lot better about my teen watching this than watching the Sex & the City series, that's for certain.

Damn rights the ads are too much. On the one hand we're telling teens that sex is great and all that, and then freaking out when teen pregnancies start to climb. Look at the outcry when Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant.

I love this show. I think the whole point of the ads , is to draw attention , which is exactly what they're doing. The quotes on them might make teenagers feel like they're rebelling , "Oh parents say this is innapropriate , I want to watch it" .. But as mentioned above , I don't even find the show that racy , the books are a lot more so. I do think that it is an accurate portrayal of big high schools , cliques , sex , etc. But in all , the ads are just grabbing our attention , making us talk about , and thus making us continue to tune in to watch it.

I totally agree with you kdottt! It's just a way for the show to get more attention, and since GG's ratings weren't as high as other shows last season, this is just a way to make it so more people know about Gossip Girl.

I think that a lot of people are sexually active in their high school years, and this isn't going to make the ones that aren't change their minds. I think that if we changed our prudish attitudes about sex in this country, we'd have less Jamie Spears, not more. And GG certainly is less raunchy than the soap operas that are on right when kids get out of school.

Its not a big deal and is being made into one.

The ads are boring but not that bad. Watch Skins then compare it to Gossip Girl Ha!

Not all that surprised but, like Advah said, it's more about being in bad taste. It doesn't seem to make the show that much more appealing.. if anything, less appealing. On a random, sort of related but mostly not, note that I haven't brought up in a while but will now because I feel like complaining..*puts on whiny voice* I wish it were more like the books

While I think the ads do bring on loads of attention to its mature audience, I don't think it sends out a positive message to its younger audience. In a way, it promotes promiscuity, drug use, etc. Don't get me wrong, I think the fashions are great, but yeah, some of the ads/behaviors/content shown on the show are a little too racy for the younger audience that I'm sure GG has.

Like kdottt said it's just for attention.
The show needs it desperately and this is their attempt. Pitiful attempt but an attempt.

What is tv coming down to? oh well it shows CW was a pale network compared to the glory days of theWB.

I love love love Gossip Girl. But really, who's the jerk behind this campaign? They make the show look like the tackiest show there is. Same with the first one, the "OMFG" campaign. That was just plain disrespectful. I hated that. I'm just glad that some sites like People.com only allowed "OMG", because really, the original one is just unnecessary.

Of course not! They are wonderful. If you don't like it, please go to bed!!!

I'm convinced that our collective pearl clutching and up-in-arms attitudes regarding ads such as these is directly contributing to the very problems we are trying to solve. Teenagers by nature are rebellious. When I was a teenager, if I heard something was scandalous or taboo, I'd make it my life's mission to see what all of the hype was about. If we had a more relaxed attitude, I think teenagers would be maturing in a different way.

to be honest, i'm sixteen and i've watched the whole first season of this show (most of it when i was fifteen) and it doesn't make me want to go out and get drunk, have sex or do drugs. i personally think it's better for teenagers to be entertained by WATCHING people doing rebeliious things than going out and doing them themselves. i know that this is a pretty unrealistic portrayal of teenage life, at least as i know it, and this show is pure escapism - that's the best bit about it. also, if sex and drugs are made less 'taboo', teenagers won't rebel by going out and doing them, in my opinion.

SublimeChica you have just read my mind! I was exactly like that when I was a teenager.

The thing that I don't understand is the whole hype about Gossip Girl's 'too racy' and 'veryill-morals'. It's just a show about teens just like any others except for they have wads of cash, huge parties and closets. But they deal with everything else teens deal with.
And sex is a HUGE part of things teen must inevitably deal with. My daughter is 14 and also goes to an elite school but she has morals and beliefs like most teens. Just because this show has sex, drugs, ridiculous spending etc. in it doesn't mean it promotes it! It's just the 'story' of teens and what they deal with. People have all gone through these problems and I believe the only reason there's such a fuss about this is because these kids are extremely rich, the situations and promiscuosity is so blunt and it's all put on t.v.

And I hated the OMFG thing sooo much. Whenever my girl says it, I confiscate her blackberry for 2-4 weeks. It's so disrespectful. And to promote sex and promiscuosity using 'f*cking' and 'god' is tasteless.

I think given the plot of the show the ads work. This isnt a show on the Disney Channel or Nickelodeon. The show is on network tv so nothing too bad can be shown. I think parents have the job of censoring for their children. This adds appeal to me and I'm the target audience for the show and if it didnt have the sex, lust, and risk I wouldn't watch it!

karma1582 the reason why they are in HS is b/c its trying to be true to the book. If you are fimilar with the book series the author, Cecily von Ziegesar wrote the book based on her and her friends experiences growing up in the disgustingly rich, fast pace world of teenagers with little adult supervision. The book is way worse as far as the things they do. In the book the adult supervision is way lessened.

I think it's an amazing ad campaign for the show. A quote from the Parents Television Council? Brilliant. It's doing exactly what an ad campaign is supposed to do - get attention and create interest.

I think teenagers mostly watch this show. So maybe all this glamorizing of sex is not such a good idea. I don't think there's anything wrong with sex, except the campaign is making it out look to good, and at the pubescent age they need a lot of more experience before both parties can make those expressions.

yep thats super worng

Okay this is going to sound crazy but I'm saying it anyway: I do think the ads are too much but I like them.

I love them. They turned bad reviews into hot ads; that's ridiculously smart.

The show is not that bad but those poster make it very bad.

Oi vey! It makes me feel guilty that I like it!

No, they are wonderful! More please!

I agree with rustyangel... the books have worse stuff.

I like them, actually, but if I were the parent of a teenager I probably wouldn't.

Every parent's nightmare is right.

I agree with catharine. This show is marketed towards teenagers who should be old enough to have their values already (I'm saying that as someone whose teen years are a not so distant memory). I watched SATC, Melrose Place, 90210, etc. while growing up and I turned out just fine. No urge to run off do drugs and have sex with everyone in site. Honestly, they have worse ads for deodorant.

*sight...'doh!

maybe it's show for teenagers but do you think that they haven't seen naked/kissing couples? it's silly for me 'cos I was teen till this year.
I always thought that USA is less prudish than my lovely Europe.
I like this ad. it's sexy but not crossing the line.

sorry I really haven't caught on to why these are inappropriate. these pics are actually quite awesome. some people just need to take a chill pill.

I agree with sideofzen - what they've done is actually quite brilliant.
These are bad reviews from publications, and they've used them to their advantage.
It's everything and more that an ad campaign is supposed to be.

I also love the show, so I know it's really not as bad as it's made to seem.
Like others have said, the books are much worse.

& like catharine said, it doesn't mean that because she watches it she's going to go out and try to live up to what these girls are doing.
It really seems like the public has no trust in our younger generations,
that just because something is on TV, everyone that's below a certain age is going to try to replicate the lives of the ones they watch.

Have some faith, people!
It's not the TV shows that are corrupting our youth,
it's our behavior towards it and trying to keep them sheltered until their 20's.

I'm in high school and my first reaction to the poster was WHOA. ITS DEFINITELY RACY.

And sex shouldn't be banned from tv. Sooner or later, they'll learn it faster enough.

Gossip Girl is trying to attract audeiences, sex sells.

i don't necessarily dislike it because it's a bad influence on teens,i dislike it because it is classless! the fact that they're teens makes it worse in my eyes, but ultimately I just find it tacky all around.

I would have no problem if the kids were in college but (supposedly) 14, 15, and 16 year-olds. No way!

The ads are WAY to steamy, but even worse- they don't portray the show well. The steamy quotient of the first season was nowhere near that of these ads.

Appropriateness is an overly used word. Things are not appropriate or inappropriate by themselves, but in terms of a situation in particular.

This show is good, very watchable, and a realistic portrayal of a certain group, the same was SATC was. It's not porn, it's just sex, and guess what? Teens have it, and lots of it. Both shows are totally ok for teens.

I grew up in a similar environment in South America, and boy did we party, have sex and hung out with many, many older and hot guys.

America is going through a neo-conservative stage, and the demonizing of teenage sex are a symptom of people's own uneasiness or fears - they are scandalized by children having sexual thoughts or actions (they do, pretty much from birth) because they are afraid of the way they might react to that as adults. Sex and bodies are natural, it;s a simple truth.

I say, get over it, and watch the show with your kids. It's a total blast. It will have you screaming "Oh my fu(king god that was a great episode!".

xosofiaxo, this is why there's "much worse" happening in our school these days, because of things like this slowly allowed by the media.

So what if there's a lot worse in schools. Does that mean the rest of the world should go to sh*t?