Starbucks’ new retro logo is too hot to handle for one Christian group, the Star Tribune reports, as it “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute…”
Here’s the logo: 
What do you think? Coffee porn?
Christian Group: Starbucks Logo Too Smutty
May 16, 2008 · 11 Comments
Categories: Advertising · business · religion · sex
Tagged: Advertising, business, religion, sex
11 responses so far ↓
The Pilgrim // May 16, 2008 at 5:57 am
Well, after looking at the picture I can kinda see their concern.
- The Pilgrim
patricksperry // May 17, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Looks more like a mermaid from classic art to me. “Methinks they dost complain too much.”
lwayswright // May 17, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I guess i really don’t get what that picture has to do with coffee in the first place. They could’ve picked something a bit more…ummm…well I don’t know…coffee like???
giofoto // May 17, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Just like an American Christian group, they’re okay with violent Chuck Norris movies, but Lord forbid their kids look at nippleless tits.
Who’re the tits now?
genuinelye // May 18, 2008 at 4:23 am
AGH!
It’s a mermaid, concerned Christian parents! Mermaids don’t exist, so your innocent children will never have to resist the temptation of this naked and mythical creature.
Also, if you’re suffering from lust by looking at your coffee cup, you’ve got a serious problem. Either get a good counselor, or google PORN. There’s way more out there that’s WAY worse.
The Reformed Faith Weblog // May 18, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Actually, I kind of like the logo. It’s artsy.
Here’s an interesting article I thought you might like to read about the origins of this specific logo… the original artwork was much naughtier.
http://www.deadprogrammer.com/starbucks-logo-mermaid
The only reason I see for avoiding Starbucks is that it’s coffee is so terribly overpriced.
Johann // May 18, 2008 at 3:03 pm
People that want to find smut, porn, or other “perversion” badly enough WILL. Someone needs to drop their little SNL Church Lady “Superiority” act and lighten up.
I agree with “Reformed Faith Weblog” above, as far as the only real reason to avoid Starbucks.
Matthew Wisner // May 18, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Take a look back at more classic artwork. Even in our own good Christian nation, we commonly had topless women on our money and other such things. And have you never seen Christian Renessaince work with topless women or angels and the child Jesus? This Starbucks logo is an attempt to capture that classic art feel; although I must say, they did it much more tastefully than the Christians of old.
madmonq // May 18, 2008 at 3:48 pm
This Christian group must be slipping. Can they not see the occult influences in that picture? A mermaid? Selling coffee?
If you play an Amy Grant record backward you can hear her saying mermaid…coffee…boobies…lactation.
I personally think Starbucks is of the devil because they charge $4.50 for something called “A tall skinny smooth machiato” or some such babble like that. Sounds like an incantation to me!
GWT // May 18, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Not just any mermaid either. A two tailed mermaid! Twice the tails, double the evil!
bullishmoves // May 18, 2008 at 10:38 pm
For one thing it’s a mermaid with two fins not a woman whose legs are open. Those two fins don’t look like legs to me. It actually makes me think of why they’d put two fins. I’d say it’s more thought provoking than it is porn.