Final results, with 833 people responding:

Q. Should BMJ have published this advertisement, featuring a woman with bare breasts?

	Total	Male	Female
Yes	600	447	153
No	233	167	66

Q. Should Delacroix have painted this picture, featuring a woman with bare breasts?

	Total	Male	Female
Yes	715	526	183
No	118	83	35

Rapid Responses:

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Drug companies: The REAL Untouchables

Rick Weissinger
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Why the controversy?

Claire Pillar
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

male or female

Adrienne Cullum
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

What's so special about breasts?

Adam Jacobs
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

In praise of art

Abdi Sanati
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Why they do not dicuss this in Russia?

Anna Belozerova
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

No Liberty please we're British?

Duncan Lamont
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Lets debate the whole issue

Debbie Lawlor
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

The art of the perfect breast

Emma Rowlands
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

It wouldn't work with Viagra

Susan Boyer
bmj.com, 2 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Ignorance is bliss

Peter Davies
bmj.com, 2 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Why the embarrassment ?

Alan Porter
bmj.com, 2 Sep 2000 [Full text]

The BMJ is no place for adverts, full stop

Phillip Bennett-Richards
bmj.com, 2 Sep 2000 [Full text]

?

Peter Mahaffey
bmj.com, 2 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Get over it

Ted Osmun
bmj.com, 2 Sep 2000 [Full text]

We are blessed with enough breast already

John Scott
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Medical ads. should not transgress modesty and decency

Joy David
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Breasts vs Brains

Ayotunde Cladipo
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Re: male or female

Tony Delamothe
bmj.com, 1 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Depends on context

Sonia Hutton-Taylor
bmj.com, 3 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Should we also get upset with the doxil people?

Virginia Hetrick
bmj.com, 3 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Advertisers dream come true

Robert O'Connor
bmj.com, 3 Sep 2000 [Full text]

What dictates the power of advertising?

Eileen G N Williams
bmj.com, 2 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Life deniers

John Mackellar
bmj.com, 3 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Pornography is in the Mind of the Beholder

Janet Hobson
bmj.com, 3 Sep 2000 [Full text]

50% of the population have them

Carrie Rostron
bmj.com, 3 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Knowledge of art

Sergio De Gabriel
bmj.com, 3 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Marketing 1 Patients 0

Alison Lee
bmj.com, 3 Sep 2000 [Full text]

What's all the fuss?

John Morgan
bmj.com, 4 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Should the BMJ carry any adverts for pharmaceuticals at all?

James Curran
bmj.com, 5 Sep 2000 [Full text]

But what about the guns?

Gwynne Harper
bmj.com, 4 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Who Cares?

Andrew Haig
bmj.com, 4 Sep 2000 [Full text]

? False impressions

James Bell
bmj.com, 5 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Equal exposure

Jackie Leach Scully
bmj.com, 5 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Breast always best!

B Chapman Boyd
bmj.com, 11 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Bad Taste

Sasa Dimitrijevic
bmj.com, 10 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Re: What dictates the power of advertising?

Shayna Kravetz
bmj.com, 14 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Whats the problem?

Karen Jacobs
bmj.com, 15 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Promotional painting of woman with bare breasts

Peter Bradley
bmj.com, 15 Sep 2000 [Full text]

Storm in a Teacup

Raymond A Bencini
bmj.com, 29 Sep 2000 [Full text]

controversy and Awards

Simon Walker
bmj.com, 29 Jun 2001 [Full text]