Akoo Jeans racy billboard at Newark (New Jersey) downtown's busy intersection, is coming down. The billboard shows a back woman kneeling down in front of man with the jeans unbuckled. The woman looks like pulling the jeans off while facing the camera. It looks like either she is about to start or just ended oral sex on the guy.  Check the billboard -

Mayor Cory A. Booker downplayed the racial angle and instead framed it as part of a general decline in standards.

"It's an issue of what are community standards and why are we consistently condoning language, images and other things that erode those standards," he said. "This billboard is not the only thing that we should be concerned with. It's a symptom of a deeper problem that we have to confront within our communities."

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

The following statement was released from Akoo Jeans -

“THE AKOO brand has always aimed to inspire individualism and creativity. Our advertising campaign was not created to offend or insult anyone but to simply provoke dialogue and thought regarding male/female sexuality within urban culture. We hope that as more of the campaign is debuted, people will see the multifaceted personality of AKOO.”

Interestingly, not far from Newark in New York City, the following Calvin Klein Jeans billboard raised hardly any criticism -

Akoo jeans is owned by famous Rapper T.I.

Makes you wonder, is it really that bad or just getting the "expected" marketing controversy?